So, it's your son's birthday in a few days and you want to buy him a present. Seeing as how there was only one thing that he has asked for for the last couple of weeks, of course that is the thing your wanting to buy him so off you go to the toy store to buy it and because toy store #1 didn't carry it, don't let it get you down. Try #2. If #2 doesnt have it, try #3 because there you just might get lucky. And if your day hasnt been eventful enough, here's something else you can do to entertain yourself.

Step by Step Guide

#1. Be born

#2. Grow up only to be short

#3. Go shopping at Toys-R-Us (or whatever toy-store of your choosing)

#4. Browse the aisles until you find what you want on a top shelf

#5. Search aisles for employee for 10 minutes before finding one and ask for help

#6. Wait 15 minutes for him to 'be right back'

#7. Search for 10 minutes to find said employee or another Toys-R-Us employee

#8. Follow the one you find halfway around the store saying excuse me several times

#9. Ask new employee for help only to be told 'one minute' and watch as he disappears into the same stockroom employee #1 disappeared into

#10. Go back to the aisle only to find the item you wanted GONE

#11. Get annoyed so when employee #2 comes to help you, calmly but FIRMLY explain what has gone on for the last 40 minutes and ask if they have it in stock in the stockroom perhaps

#12. Wait long enough that it seems that #2 employee was eaten by whatever stockroom monster that ate employee #1

#13. Browse the aisles for other possible items only to find the original item you wanted on another aisle, again on the top shelf

#14. Contemplate for a few minutes whether or not you want to leave the aisle and perhaps lose item to another mystery item-eating force

#15. Go to each end of the aisle and look around to see if there is an employee lurking about

#16. Get bent, go back, climb up 2 shelves only for the wanted item to get caught on the item next to it and thus starting a chain reaction in knocking all items off the top shelf

#17. Get caught standing on the shelves you climbed by asst. manager that appears out of thin air

#18. Get berated by said manager for climbing on shelves instead of asking an employee for help

#19. Sheepishly attempt to explain to the manager that you did ask for help 2 different times just so he can interrupt you and tell you in a very snobby voice that there are courtesy phones distributed around the store so that you can get help

#20. Get angry! Go ahead and be mad as hell that you have wasted almost an hour trying to buy one stupid item without success only to have someone appear out of nowhere when you finally get tired of trying to find someone just so said someone can talk down to you and speak as if you have the IQ of lint

#21. Tell the asst. manager that he has bigger problems than a customer knocking toys off a shelf since it seems his stockroom is a black hole for employees and that he should yank the stick out of his ass and find something to go go kill the employee-eating monster in the stockroom rather than berate someone who received poor customer service Make sure to use lots of hand gesture to emphasize your points

#22. End rant by calling him a dickhead

#23. Use one last hand gesture after he asks you to leave the store

Follow this step by step guide and you too can get kicked out of a children's toy store!

Alternate ending: Punch said dickhead in nose so that security guards can be invited to enjoy the party as well. :P

Did you at least get the toy? :::sigh::: I remember my days working retail in Target and Academy. (thank God those days are over)I never did anything as stupid as the ones you delt with, though. I actually tried to help customers.

:::sigh:: I was just going to sign that. Though to add to your tale, I got kicked out of Wal-Mart once. We were playing tag at three in the morning. ;)

No toy :( Going back out today to try to find it again or 3 other toys to make up for the lack of the one he wanted and didnt get.

Then I'll order the one he does want online.

Either way, he is gonna have a happy bday, so Toys-R-Us employees can bite me.

I did retail for 12 years before becoming a teacher. I know its hard and severely stressful especially around the holidays, but ignoring a customer and speaking down to him or her just does not bode well for business or for the employees as there is always someone higher up that can put the proverbial smackdown on them.

Lady, I did something similar once but it involved golf-carts and a country-club that I worked for one summer.

Let's just say we found out that the mini 'lakes' they put around the course aren't just for show and really are kinda deep and that a golf-cart will run underwater for about 5 minutes until the battery/motor drowns out.

lol are you guys from Australia or do they have toys-r-us and target in where ever? they probably do... oh well...

hahaha i got kicked out of Big W because my friends were playing hide and seek in the different asiles... :P

Desi...I know it was stressful and it sucked majorly but the way you tell it... ROFLMAO! I hope you manage to get it elsewhere.

Guest... Toys R Us and Target are American companies... we just imported them LOL

HA! I went back last night and got what I wanted! I so didn't want to spend my money in that place, but I'm a sucker for my sons and they were the only one that carried this particular thing he wanted. I was gonna order online, but it wasn't guranteed to be here by Monday.

Anyhoo...I went back into the black hole of toys. This time I was smarter. Instead of waiting to find an employee, I just waited for a really tall guy to walk by and I asked him to get me one since the toys I want are STILL on the very top shelf *grumble* and since I'm only 5'3", finding someone taller than I wasn't a problem.

I then took said toy to the customer service center instead of the checkout and when it was my turn, I explained to the woman at the counter what had happened and she in turn went and got a manager. I then explained to him what had happened and he apologized profusely, gave me 10% off my total (which was YAY cause I also had a couple of games for my son's Gameboy as well as various other toys and stuffies) and then had me fill out a card thingie so I will receive a $25 dollar giftcard in the mail.

He also promised to look into the stockroom monster.

Then I took the leftover money I had set aside for bday shopping and I treated my younger son and myself to lunch (my older son whose bday it is was in school).

That's great. I happy your second trip to the toy store was much better, and a bonus you got a discount and saved some money. ^_^

I'm one of those tall people you probabaly look for (5 foot 10 inches with very long arms) and we are usually pretty willing to help people as long as what it is doesn't fall on us and cause injury.

I'm short too, 5'4. I need the big people to help me all the time. *g*

Well GB, you are taller than me. I'm only 5 foot 2 inches. Luckily my husband is somewhere around 5 foot 10 inches and two of his brothers are 6 foot and 6 foot 2 inches. If I ever need something I can't reach I get them to get it for me. =)

i grew, lol. i thought i had stopped growing at 19, but one day i was standing next to hubby and noticed i was a inch shorter than him,lol. yes, i married a short man. my dad in 6'0 and my uncles are all 5'9 or taller. i thought i'd be tall. my mom is 5'1 and my grammy is 4'11.

You should do what my sister did, marry someone tall...she's 4ft 11" and her husband is 6ft, he's scared of her because she hits low...lol

LoL, I'm 5 and 3/4 of an inch, lol.... and my Ex-bf was 6'3... yeah, I hit low too. We would play video games with his two buddies in the room and apparently I'm a sore loser and I pounced him and started beating him with the controller while his two friends laughed their asses off at him getting beat up by his "midget" girlfriend. In my defense this was like 3 or 4 years ago, so I hope I've matured since then *shift eyes then glares at Zoe so she doesn't say anything*