Quarter Pounder At The Big Mac

On, one of my many errand runs today, I found myself at The Grove and it wasn't to shop at Abercrombie and Fitch. Admitingly, I was never what you'd call a real customer of theirs anyway. I would always stop in to see if Lara Flynn Boyle was snaking around with her wiener lips or if they had these cargo pants that I liked.

I didn't start jonesing for another pair until mine went AWOL on a trip to NYC. I was never quite proud of the fact that I got them there, anyway. I removed all of the labels with my little red seam rippers after I bought them. If someone asked where I got them I always said "You know I've had them so long I can't remember. They're so old." I got tons of compliments when I wore them.


Now, I hate, no, I LOATH that store after an incident that I had there this summer when I tried to return a pair of cargo pants that never quite fit right. They never made the ones I liked again, being the trend whores and soft porn peddlers that they are. "They're too cool to make brand staples."

It seems that once you exchange an item that you've purchased, even with the receipt, even within a certain time frame, you forfeit the right to a return by the same means as your purchase. They keep your money and give you a store credit. Ninety dollars is a decent chunk of change to give to a store that gives nothing back. It's not a Barney's or a Neiman Marcus in the least bit. They invite me to parties and they know how to treat people.

At Abercrombie they are are great in their own minds and to them, that's what counts, not what the customer thinks. Most of the sales people at the store aren't even familiar with this absurd policy until the computer tells them it's a no, no.

So they couldn't warn you even if they wanted to.

If they'd taken the pair of cargos that I had originally wanted off of the display like I had asked, I wouldn't have had this problem in the first place.

They don't sell display merchandise. Another one of their stupid policies. Can, I tell You how much I HATE THAT COMPANY!

I forgot what I was going to say... I did see, Drea de Matteo having lunch at The Farm. That restaurant is so gross and the food is awful, why on earth she would go there is beyond me.

I had the Tuna Three Ways there once... FISH... Oh that reminds me, I saw CCH Pounder at the Mac store, I was looking for some software and so was she.