Njoy This Trip

This post is just a rant so you can stop reading right now if you choose. I just wanna be fair and tell you that I’m really just complaining at this point. So here we go:

Forty-year-old female store owners RUNNING to the landlady accusing Shop “X” of carrying items that they carry… when Shop “X” CARRIED THEM FIRST. Shop “X” SAW the new shops carrying a few of “their” items when they were setting up, but did Shop “X” run to the phone to complain to the landlady that THEY already had those items and that NEW stores had better take them down? I don’t THINK so. Because that is pathetic. We’re talking $10 items here. But I guess Shop “X” should have done that. Because now Shop “X” has been accused of *adding* items that they have carried FOR 2 YEARS now. And ironically, Shop “X” is one of the FEW shops in town that actually takes steps NOT to carry items that stores nearby carry so as to not “step on anyone’s toes”… and these newbie shop owners come in accusing shop “X” of doing exactly that. How rich. Shop “X” is one of only a handful of shops that actually HAVE morals and respect for the other shop owners, who constantly refers business to their fellow shop owners and who believes there is room for everybody in town. There is even one particular shop in town who looks at Shop X’s items, contacts their vendors and then starts selling the very same items. Talk about unimaginitive and pathetic, right? But does Shop “X” go whine, bitch and moan about them? No. Why? Because who really cares? Like I said, there’s enough room in town for everyone.

But what really gets me the most is why these 40-year-old women shop owners don’t simply stop by Shop X to talk about it first. How freakin hard is THAT?  Are they so cowardly they are afraid to speak their mind? If they had stopped by Shop X they would have found out that Shop X would gladly sell out of whatever items they had a problem with because Shop X knows there are thousands of items to sell. But no, these 40-yr-old “adults” go running to the landlord to complain. C’mon people. Certainly if there was a rift going on where neither store would budge, I could see contacting the landlord to step in.  But to not even TRY to approach the subject with Shop X first? What, is this high school all over again? Aren’t we all grown-ups here?

Well, I guess some of us are.

Thanks for letting me vent, folks. Glad I got that out!