Saturday Was FCBD!!!!!!!
Saturday was national Free Chicken ‘n Biscuit Day (FCBD)!!! It’s my favorite day of the year. I look forward to it for months leading up to it! I mean how frickin cool is it that pretty much EVERY grocery store in the country gives out free food like that??? So many different types of chicken, all the various biscuits….. Yumm! I have my favorite place picked out where they even put different types of aerosol cheese on top of them (but that store is my little secret **wink**). So this past Saturday I was all ready to head out the door and make it to the store early. I got there, and there were hundreds and hundreds of different mixes of chicken ‘n biscuits. A total drool fest. I looked at the woman at the counter and I asked her to just start bagging all of them up for me so I could take them home and enjoy them at my leisure. She told me that there was a limit of 2!?!? WTF!!!! I demanded that she give me all of them, but she continued telling me “no”, that there was a 2 per person limit. I was getting majorly pissed off! I demanded that she give me the website and the e-mail addresses of everyone involved. I mean hello!!!! She didn’t have to pay for any of it, Tyson sent the chicken to them for free, Pillsbury sent them the biscuits for free, and the aerosol cheese was given for free by Kraft! What was her problem? I’m entitled! I can take all the free samples I want, and who the hell does she think she is to deny me? I stomped out in a huff and I will NEVER go back to that store! And I will bad mouth them till I’m out of breath and on my death bed.
**Cher moment** SNAP OUT OF IT!!
Nope, this didn’t really happen, it was all in my head. Saturday was national Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) though. Anybody who knows us, knows how much we dread that day. This year we decided to do things differently though, and it went great! We used to set the books out on tables for people to help themselves, but because of so many greedy people we had to stop. This year, we kept the books behind the counter and had a list of the books available on the counter itself. We limited each person to 2 books, so people would look at the list and tells us which books they wanted. It went really smoothly. Besides the cast of usual characters who try to burst our bubble every FCBD, there was only one person that was a thorn in our side.
There was a woman that had already been to some other comic shop, where they too had a 2 book limit. She went off on us how that just wasn’t right, and she wanted us to give her the lists off the counter of what books were available, and wanted us to provide the official website for Free Comic Book Day, and the e-mail addresses and blah blah blah. She felt entitled to take however many books she wanted because they are free.
No Virginia, Santa Claus is dead. The comic book publishers don’t send out millions of free books to comic shops around the country out of the goodness of their hearts. They print them up and the retailers have to pay for them. That’s why stores put a limit on the number people may have. I will say though, that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. The 2 book limit is up to our discretion. If you are spending hundreds of dollars in the store, guess what? You’re probably going to get more than 2. If you are a small child in with your ma or pa, you’re probably going to get more than 2, because we feel that it is important to teach children to read and that the world of comics and imagination is a wonderful world. FCBD doesn’t seem so daunting now, not as scary. We had a great Saturday and went home with smiles on our faces instead of scowls.
**Cher moment** SNAP OUT OF IT!!
Nope, this didn’t really happen, it was all in my head. Saturday was national Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) though. Anybody who knows us, knows how much we dread that day. This year we decided to do things differently though, and it went great! We used to set the books out on tables for people to help themselves, but because of so many greedy people we had to stop. This year, we kept the books behind the counter and had a list of the books available on the counter itself. We limited each person to 2 books, so people would look at the list and tells us which books they wanted. It went really smoothly. Besides the cast of usual characters who try to burst our bubble every FCBD, there was only one person that was a thorn in our side.
There was a woman that had already been to some other comic shop, where they too had a 2 book limit. She went off on us how that just wasn’t right, and she wanted us to give her the lists off the counter of what books were available, and wanted us to provide the official website for Free Comic Book Day, and the e-mail addresses and blah blah blah. She felt entitled to take however many books she wanted because they are free.
No Virginia, Santa Claus is dead. The comic book publishers don’t send out millions of free books to comic shops around the country out of the goodness of their hearts. They print them up and the retailers have to pay for them. That’s why stores put a limit on the number people may have. I will say though, that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. The 2 book limit is up to our discretion. If you are spending hundreds of dollars in the store, guess what? You’re probably going to get more than 2. If you are a small child in with your ma or pa, you’re probably going to get more than 2, because we feel that it is important to teach children to read and that the world of comics and imagination is a wonderful world. FCBD doesn’t seem so daunting now, not as scary. We had a great Saturday and went home with smiles on our faces instead of scowls.