John's Blog

Sometimes, you just find yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yesterday, I was at work and headed to the men's room in the Juniors department. A sales associate ran up to me and ask me to get someone to take a dress off a mannequin for a customer. Since "getting someone" involves more effort than just doing it myself, I jumped in and got to work. Unfortunately, this particular mannequin was on a 2.5' platform which was placed in a spot with a low ceiling, so I had to pick it up by the base and place it on the floor. Normally that wouldn't be that tough, but on this one they had wired two of those 2' mirrored disco balls to her ankles. Once you picked it up, the balls start flopping around making it difficult to handle. I wanted to ask one of the associates to help, but being overly mindful of my recent "sexual harassment training", I couldn't think of anyway to phrase my request for help that didn't sound filthy. Luckily, no balls were broken.

Onward, to today's semi-related link-dump:

Glossary of sexual slurs
June the Hitchiking Mannequin
Mannequins: A brief history
Real Dolls: Just like a woman

Tags: work, weird, stupid