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One of my best friends works in retail and the store she works at is currently doing inventory so everyone is super busy. I was there shopping with my grandmother and as my grandmother was trying on stuff in the fitting room, I was chatting with my friend. That’s when a middle-aged woman comes up and the drama begins. She was very rude right from the get go. It probably won’t translate well into text because it was mostly in her tone.

Woman: “are you on break?”

BFF: “no.”

Woman: “good because I need an outfit taken off of a mannequin.”

BFF: “I don’t think we can do that for you right now we’re doing inventory but which one do you need taken down? I’ll go ask my manager about it.”

Woman: “those strawberry pajamas up there. There aren’t any on the racks so I need the one off the mannequin.”

And let me just add that this mannequin is really high up. It is close to the ceiling. It’s one of those mannequins that’s on the wall, not standing by itself on the floor. If this had been any other day, getting those pajamas down, wouldn’t have been that big of an issue. But it’s inventory season and no one really wants to go out of their way to help her because she’s being so rude.

At this point, all I am missing is a bucket of popcorn so when my friend goes off to talk to her manager, I go with her. At first without fully understanding the situation the manager said it would be no problem. She’ll just put a new outfit on the mannequin, but once she heard that this customer was being rude and that this mannequin wasn’t easily accessible, she told my friend to just tell the lady that they can’t do that. So we head back to her and tell her exactly what the manager said minus the part where she said it wouldn’t be a problem because she didn’t fully understand the situation yet. She did not like that answer. She decided to get other associates involved that were all telling her the exact same thing.

Woman: “ I worked in retail for 14 years. At this store actually, so I know that this is absolutely something you can do.”

BFF’s coworker: “ normally it would be, but we are doing inventory right now so we can’t take anything off the mannequins.”

Woman: “I need it for her. She’s going out of town tomorrow and she needs it for that.”

It was only then that I noticed that the teenage girl who has been silent the entire time was actually with this woman and not just standing nearby to watch the drama unfold like I originally thought.

BFF’s coworker: “would you like me to bring the manager here so you can talk to her directly?”

Woman: “yes I would.”

It was at that point that I had to leave, but my friend filled me in on how it ended. Unfortunately it is not a satisfying ending for the rest of us. The rude woman managed to convince someone to take the pajamas off the mannequin for her.

My cousin is getting married this weekend and the whole family is mad about her not letting kids come to the wedding.

Most of the family will have to travel across states just to attend this wedding. The wedding is in Tennessee, but a lot of the family lives in Florida, we’ve got another branch of the family in Colorado, and one of my cousins currently lives in a different country. One of my cousins had already bought plane tickets for her, her husband, and her 2 kids before she was told that the kids couldn’t come to the wedding.

Three of my cousins already have multiple children. One of my cousins is a single mom of two girls, another one has a boy and a girl and the third cousin has a two-year-old and six month old twins. I’m not sure at the moment if it’s just the littles that are not allowed because the oldest of my cousins’ combined children is 13 so he and the other two who are close in age with him won’t be disruptive like a toddler would potentially be.

If only the littles aren’t allowed, that means that the single mom will be able to bring one of her children, but not the other and my other cousin will either have to be separated from her twin babies who are still nursing or miss the wedding.

I don’t even have the bride’s phone number nor do I feel like I have a close enough relationship with her to question her decisions about her wedding. We’ve lived our whole lives in different states and I usually only see her once every couple of years.

I understand why some brides don’t want babies and toddlers at their wedding but it’s a huge inconvenience to our cousins with small children since they can’t just hire a babysitter for the day. I feel like since she’s making her cousins with children travel across state lines to attend her wedding, she should just give in and let them bring their children to the wedding especially since the whole family is upset about this decision she’s made.

Update: I have been told that anyone under 18 is not allowed at the wedding because the venue was more important to my cousin than having her family at her wedding and because of this, half of the family is not going to her wedding in order to look after all the kids. I was also told that children would not be allowed at the rehearsal dinner but I am at the rehearsal dinner as I am typing this and there are two infants that I have never met before and are not related to me or the bride in any way. Apparently only non family members are allowed to bring their children.

I watched The dominATE Experience on Prime Video today and the camera quality ruined the experience. It was really bad. It was really inconsistent too. At times I couldn’t make out a single facial feature and at other times I could actually see Felix’s freckles. For those who watched it in the theater, was the video quality better when you watched it? I haven’t heard of anyone else complaining about it so I’m curious. I paid money to watch this movie and it looks like it was shot on a 10 year old iPhone.

Was Zi Qi a self insert or was he another transmigrator?

I’m not sure how to explain it but sometimes authors will create a character that is meant to be a version of themselves. It’s a way of inserting themselves into the story. Zi Qi says he is Fu Zhou in the last episode but it’s not like he’s knew that the whole time. It’s something he had just figured out. He could either be Fu Zhou’s self insert character that has awakened or he could actually be Fu Zhou who just remembered that he is also a transmigrator. Miao Miao forgot for a while that she wasn’t really from that world and in one of Ding Yuxi’s other dramas, The Romance of Tiger and Rose, his character transmigrated into a screenplay and literally became the character he was playing. He didn’t remember the real world while he was in the other world but once he was back in the real world he had all his memories of being in the other world.

Overall I loved this drama but I feel like the ending was a little unclear.