Shopping is generally thought to be a passive sport around these parts, but my cousin Gayle said she witnessed a sale recently in her rural Arkansas town that would’ve made an NBA brawl look like a tea party. Seems they have a great little garden store in her town that is very popular with the ladies. They’ve been advertising their move to a new location for weeks, along with a one day only blow out sale. The local paper said everything would be priced to go to make room for some early arriving spring inventory!

So it was that the morning of the big day Gayle and her Mama set their alarms and got there bright and early, or so they thought. It was eight-thirty and the store wasn’t supposed to open until nine and there were already folks lined up three deep at the front door.

Gayle said that by nine o’clock the little crowd was already tense when a small man started pushing his way to the front of the line. Just that fast the crowd pushed him back. Gayle said she heard some pretty foul language and she couldn’t swear to it, but she was almost certain she saw one lady “accidentally” trip him.

Well, apparently the little man may have been small, but he was also quite stubborn. He got right back up and fought his way to the front again. No sooner did the poor man make it that time before a big mean lady with a matching attitude took her big flowery purse and knocked him square in the head. By this time, Gayle and her mama were both feeling sorry for the fellow.

They were talking about saying something to the woman, ‘bout how no sale was worth hurting another shopper when the little man got back up, faced the crowd and said, “That does it! If one more person hits me, I am not opening this door!”

~Shellie

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