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SabrinaJA
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Well I've never been to a crop in all the years I've been scrapbooking but strangely enough after reading this thread I'm kind of inspired to! Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment or I just really want some funny stories to share. |
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PhyllisVa
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I was at a weekend crop at Va.Beach a couple years ago . The grand prize was a free weekend crop (for the next event) and I won!!! I was very excited . then later I hear through the grapevine that the hostess was being cheap and was going to tell me that it only covered my crop space , not the food or the hotel room that normally is part of the weekend package .
I guess her friends talked her out of it --she did not charge me , but the free crop sucked anyway . well seems She and the partner from the first crop split and she decided she was going to make a few extra $$$ So she cheaped out on everything . cheap food, no seconds allowed . as soon as lunch hour was over she packed up all the extra sodas and chips and put them in her car . no snacks . if you asked for a drink she would send you to a vending machine down the hall .
she had a big table of awesome "prizes" but never gave them away -- they were just for show - and slowly disapeared one by one as she packed them away . and then gave out cheap $1 store crap .
we were told no music ( except IPODs) but her teen daughter played her music on her laptop all weekend .Playing the same songs over and over . Later, some of the ladies had wine at their table -- and her teen would not leave them alone trying to get a glass.
I ended up packing up and leaving early . I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth -- but it drove me INSANE .
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I... finally... made... it... to... the... end... of... this... thread. I started reading it over the weekend off and on and couldn't resist coming back to it and reading more. It's like a bad train wreck. lol! |
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Amb7412
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cnbrennan
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I have never been to a scrap before but I love these stories. | |
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Erin in Okc
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I was the nightmare once. (sigh) I've actually scanned through a good half dozen pages of the thread to see if I was mentioned.
I have been hostessing a crop at my church for I forget how many years now. I want to say 4 1/2? Anyway, when I first started it was anybody's guess how many people would actually show up. And it was come and go, so there might be nobody all day, then 6 in the evening, or vice versa. No matter how many people showed up, I was always there for the full 12 hours, because I had people not show up until 8 pm before, and ended up staying until midnight having so much fun. Anyway, one time this girl I'd known online for awhile decided to come down from Tulsa to crop with us, driving about 1 1/2 hours. We'd arranged for her to stay all night with me and leave in the morning.
Well, it turned out to be one of those days where NOBODY came. I could tell she felt awkward at times, and I tried my best to make her comfortable.
Well, towards the evening she says she's not feeling very well. I truly must have been SO dense, because I did not know she was faking so that she could leave! I can't remember what all I said, but I talked her into staying in town, and we went home and she slept over, leaving early the next morning. We don't have a spare bedroom, but our house is new and comfortable. My mother in law had just given us a brand new mattress that she thought she was allergic to, so our not-too-old mattress was leaning up against our bedroom wall at that time, and that's what we brought out for her to sleep on. DH and I laid it out in the living room and put clean sheets and stuff on it for her.
I remember the next morning she said that in the middle of the night my daughter had come in the living room in the middle of the night (you have to pass through the living room to get to our room,) and my daughter (who was then about 4) said, "Mommy?" and she said, "I'm not your Mommy." and my daughter ran from the room.
I didn't realize until after she had left that I had been dense, and just made her even more uncomfortable than she already was. I e-mailed an apology to her, but never heard from her again.  | |
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Erin in Okc
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| Posted: 5/12/2009 11:53:19 AM
Was I the threadkiller? Somebody say something, please! I don't want my "I was the nightmare" story to be the very last one! | |
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irishwed
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| Posted: 5/12/2009 12:34:19 PM
For now it seems I AM the house to crop in.
I can easily hold 16-20 croppers with plenty of elbow room. We all used to teach/attend the same church so we all know each other- no swearing. Just a ton of laughing. Oh and eating.
All my friends come for an entire day- my DH and DS help me set up and we crop from 10-8 once per month.
The guys come home and we head out to dinner.
It's my favorite weekend of the month.
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daisysmom
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Erin--That would be awkward! I don't think you should feel badly about not "getting" her wanting to leave. You were very nice to accommodate her. It's kind of weird that she didn't answer your e-mails though--at least for a polite thank you! |
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Suki Tuesday
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I've got a few to share:
I was part of a scrapping group that one of the members hosted a charity event to raise money for her Girl Scout troop. One of our fellow members had a musty smell to her, like perhaps she had put something on that hadn't totally dried in the dryer. Several members of the group started making cracks about how bad this woman smelled. Honestly it was worse than junior high stuff. I wanted nothing more than to smack them all.
Another time, after a very close friend of my family had passed away I was at a crop at my Creative Memories consultant. Now this woman is a great person, and we always enjoyed going to her home, seeing her husband and kids. I was in a particularly vulnerable mood as the friend had died, at age 56 from liver & colon cancer. Another cropper, who was notorious for going on about minor health problems excessively and at every crop, starts on about how her doctor has found cysts in her liver that "could explode at any moment". She is being totally melodramatic and everyone had their heads down and was ignoring her--thus making her even more dramatic because she realized she was getting no attention. I just snapped. I actually said, "Oh would you just shut up already! No one cares! We all come her for a few hours to get away from our families and our problems. We're all sick and tired of listening to you bitch and complain about every little thing in your life! I just buried a dear man who was like my uncle yesterday. He was 56 and died of liver cancer. NO ONE CARES TO LISTEN TO YOUR CRAP ANY MORE!!!!" Yes, by the end I was shouting and my hostesses kids overheard the whole thing. As soon as I stopped talking I slapped my hands over my mouth and ran out of the room sobbing. My hostess/friend was wonderful. She knew I had been upset about this, even before I arrived. She just sat me down and hugged me, let me cry and told me not to worry about what I had said. At which point a couple of the other girls came in and hugged me and told me they wished they had told her to shut up a long time before that. So there you have it, I was the nightmare responder!
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robbiejane
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I crop with a group of girls regularly. Someone invited a girl that talked about her HPV all night. It was totally gross & TMI!!
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Erin in Okc
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| Posted: 5/13/2009 2:02:30 PM
Thanks Lisa! It's been a couple of years since that happened (maybe even 3?) So,after reading through everybody elses nightmares on here, I went to the message board where she and I met. I looked at her blog, and pm'd her to tell her what a nice blog she had, and again, how sorry I was about that whole awkward day. Still haven't heard a thing from her. It must have been worse for her than I imagined!  The poor girl can't even respond without revisiting the whole awful experience!
Oh well. It was a learning experience.
A good friend of mine read through these, and my crops are the only ones she's ever been to. She was so kind, and said she's SO grateful for my crops after reading through these, which made me feel better!
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Amb7412
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| Posted: 5/14/2009 10:11:13 AM
Erin and Suki I love that you were willing to share your stories I had a good laugh. I listed mine already but had to say thanks, These things happen. Its nice to know that the person on the other can feel bad about things too. | |
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Erin in Okc
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| Posted: 5/23/2009 11:02:10 AM
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Harmonia30
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| Posted: 5/23/2009 1:32:56 PM
I've been to about 3 crops and the last one was just a nightmare! So a friend of mine tells me about a crop her sister is holding at her house and that kids are welcome, since the lady hosting has a few of her own, so i thought it would be fun for my one year old to have some interaction and fun time while mommy gets some scrapping done!
Well...we drive about 2 1/2 hrs to BFE in a town where about 20 ppl reside. the night before, the water tower "ran out of water" so that meant NO running water and that their ONE toilet was out of order. Mind you, we expected to be there all day (thank GOD i brought my own car and just followed my friend or i would have been stuck there all day!)
So we get there and the house is just disgusting and there's clutter everywhere and there are 2 card tables for about 12 ppl to scrap! My friend and I share a card table and she literally brought her entire CM collection and took up 90% of the table. I was pretty new at scrapbooking at the time, so i had one measly container of random stuff, so i had to keep "asking" her to use her products in order to make a page (but she KNEW this and told me beforehand that i could use all of her stuff, but when i asked, she would give me the "eye" .
All the while, my kid is attached to my hip and just hated being there, so i only had one hand to scrapbook (which is virtually impossible), then my kid starts hearing another kid cry and he starts crying! Then because "kids are welcome", they had a play area on the floor, which happened to be right under my feet, so i'm getting attacked by legos and trains and other heavy toys and i'm ready to scream! then the town teenagers hear of this "cool event" and decide to invite all their friends over and they had absolutely no interest in scrapbooking, but they had to be all up on us, trying to impress us with their small town teenage life...barf...
So, after about 5 hrs of this torture, the light came on in my head and i said outloud "i have to go, my son is not feeling well". And everyone looked at me like i just murdered someone. I said i'm sorry i have to go and i wish i could stay another 5 hrs, but he was just too cranky and i literally got one 8 x8 pg done. it was just AWFUL!!! And i thought i was on candid camera or in some dark comedy movie. i mean the day just kept getting worse!
Thank God my kid fell asleep in the car the second we took off and i just laughed (and cried) all the way home. And sure enough, there was traffic at the time, so it took me about 3 1/2 hrs to get home. <sigh>
I have 2 events coming up in the next month and i'm definitely not bringing my son and i'm definitely coming more prepared and these locations are about 10 min from my house! i can't wait to hear more stories!! i know they're out there! | |
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Ok so I must admit I have been lurking on the boards for a few months now but haven't gotten the urge to post until I came across this thread! Wow you guys totally cracked me up as I read through these, and I didnt read them all... I think I will save this post as a 'read for a good laugh' kinda post.
My story is not nearly as bad as anyones who has alread posted but I wanted to vent/share my story too. I am becoming quite the professional retreater... hehe. I go away to scrapbook retreats about 5 times a year and I also take classes and go to workshops at a lss and other womens houses.
what i absolutely hate the most is when you are at a retreat and there is always one woman who thinks that upon completion of a page they must show everyone, and everyone must oooh and ahhh over it. Its always the ones who slap a picture on a page, usually no embellishments other than a cheap sticker here or there and they are sooo ugly! Something a first grader might do. I get so frustrated having to always stop working on what I am doing every 15 minutes, cuz thats how quick they slap their layouts together, to look at their junk. I always have the same compliment to dish out cause i dont know what to say when its so ugly: "neat paper" or "love the paper" or something along those lines.
why is it that the women who do awesome work are not the ones up parading around the room to show off? its always the annoying ones with ugly work. and what on earth makes them think we alllll want to see their stuff?! go sit down already! when i am ready to scope out others work for inspiration or out of the need for a change of scenery I will come to you!
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Erin in Okc
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| Posted: 6/14/2009 8:51:59 PM
Ok, I have another one to add. You will need a little background for this one.
First, about 5 weeks ago my church decided to start charging us for our crops. We have always been considered an outreach ministry, but suddenly they have to charge us $150 each time. We can't afford it, so I have to e-mail the members of our Scrapbooking meetup group and tell them we'll look for another place.
The next morning my neighbor (a member of our meetup group) e-mails me, asking me if I know Helen.(not her real name.) Huh? She says Helen had sent her an e-mail saying, "If you don't have a place to crop anymore, come to my CM crops!! I'm having a sale this month on such and such!" My neighbor thinks it is rude and tacky, especially considering how upset I was to be in the situation to begin with. I have always thought that Helen joined our group to sell her stuff. She has attended twice in two years. I e-mail Helen a few times, and after much thought, decided to remove her from our meetup group so that she can't post her events on the message board anymore. (besides the e-mail she posts her events quite often.) She was angry, of course.
Ok, back to the location issue. My neighbor said, "Why don't you try my church?" So, I call her church and the secretary is very friendly, and directs me to somebody she says is looking to start a group. I call Krissy (not her real name) and she sounds very excited about meeting our group and maybe inviting our group to join her and a couple of her friends she scrapbooks with. So, we schedule a crop, and it was yesterday.
I arrive an hour early as scheduled to help set up tables, only to find that they had done it the night before. Also, the two ladies there had on matching scrappy t-shirts. (nothing wrong with that...just a part of the story.) So, I just start unloading and setting up. The ladies are giving me a strange vibe that I can't quite place...
A couple more ladies in t-shirts show up. Then a few of our group show up, and the place actually starts to get quite crowded. And it's hot. The thermostat says 73 degrees, but it was NOT 73 degrees. Anyway, just after lunch a good friend of mine gets there, and she sits by me, and we're having a good time. Around 3:00 I look over towards the other side of the room, and I see...HELEN!! Wearing the same matchy t-shirt that the other ladies are wearing!! I thought I was uncomfortable before, but I am MORE than uncomfortable now. But I keep on scrapping...
THEN...there are a couple of new members of our group who have joined us for the first time. One of them, who I think is very nice, is quite talkative. She's only been in town for 3 weeks, and doesn't know anyone. She has two small children, and obviously needs some time out. I think I was just about as wound up when my kids were litte and I finally got a break, you know? So, at one point the leader of the church ladies t-shirt group comes over to me and says,
"Do you KNOW that girl?"
me: "Who?"
her:"The one who won't SHUT UP?" 
me:"She's brand new, and has only been in town for 3 weeks, and she doesn't know anyone."
her:"Ok, I just wanted to know how to handle the situation."
She goes back to her seat.
I called the new girl today, and from our conversation, I don't think she heard Krissy, but she could have if she had been listening. Krissy was close enough to be heard, and I'm hard of hearing. When my friend and I went to dinner, she brought it up and thought Krissy was so rude to bring it up there, anyway. She said, "Why couldn't she just wait and e-mail you or call you later?"
Also, when we were having dinner my friend mentioned her bad vibes, too. She said she really didn't think they wanted us there, and I have to agree. I'm thinking more than one of them knew about the Helen situation and thought I was some kind of evil person.
Anyway, I started off the day with such high hopes, and just saw them crumble into dust before the day was over. | |
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Erin in Okc
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| Posted: 6/15/2009 10:21:54 AM
I just have to add that I feel I could have handled the Helen situation better. I should have just e-mailed her and asked her not to post her CM stuff anymore. Like I said, we e-mailed back and forth a few times before I decided to just take her off the website so that she couldn't post her stuff there anymore. But I should have just left it at that, and not removed her.
The worst part is that she and I work in the same company. Completely different departments, but still... | |
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scrappincolleen
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| Posted: 6/15/2009 5:32:06 PM
These stories are very funny! I've never had a nightmare crop story, but have cropped with others who have. I think the biggest problem I've every had is excesive cell phone use. If your phone rings, just leave the table and step outside to take the call. There are times when peoples phones ring constantly and then they aren't at the table to take the call...it just gets annoying at times! | |
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| Posted: 6/15/2009 5:41:25 PM
holy cow..this thread is still going two year later...??
rofl..
I RARELY go to crops anymore..
it takes A LOT for me to go to one!!
besides having items missing, there is a couple groups of ladies who frequent the lss who seem to think the crop area has their name on it..
a lot of the women are very sweet, but it is the ones who act act like the crop room is theirs exclusively put me off to the point that I do not go anymore..
I know it seems silly, but when I crop, I want to feel comfortable..
not like I am invading someone's territory..
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Peadidoc
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BTT. Any crop nightmare stories from GASC Arlington or new ones?
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1scrappyRN
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| Posted: 6/16/2009 9:28:40 AM
I don't have any nightmares....LOL! No f-bombs. I have my croppin' buddies. We usually crop at churches, which knocks out most of the cursing and explicit sex talk....There are some older kids there but they are scrappin' too.
I am very particular about crops I go to. If I don't feel comfortable I don't go.
I am very lucky that our area has some awesome ladies to crop with. Not just my close friends but everyone is cool. There is a crop every weekend at some church or facility. Sorry to hear the horror stories but some are interesting. |
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1scrappyRN
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| Posted: 6/16/2009 9:29:12 AM
I don't have any nightmares....LOL! No f-bombs. I have my croppin' buddies. We usually crop at churches, which knocks out most of the cursing and explicit sex talk....There are some older kids there but they are scrappin' too.
I am very particular about crops I go to. If I don't feel comfortable I don't go.
I am very lucky that our area has some awesome ladies to crop with. Not just my close friends but everyone is cool. There is a crop every weekend at some church or facility. Sorry to hear the horror stories but some are interesting. |
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oh yvonne
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| Posted: 6/16/2009 7:17:47 PM
ya know, I don't think I ever shared my "The Farting Cropper" story...
I quote myself..
I'm posting this because my bff dared me to..okay?
This weekend my bff and I went to a lovely, lovely all day crop at a hotel sponsored by my lss.
We had the BEST time. However.....
the lady sitting DIRECTLY BEHIND ME had a gas problem! OMG!
The first time I caught a 'whiff'...I kinda looked around...afraid to say anything..you know that whole 'whoever smelt it..dealt it' thing.
I went along my merry way thinking maybe someone let one rip, not knowing it would wind up being an SBD.
Well, this LADY was sitting directly behind me (who, btw was very snobbish in her conversations, with her girlfriends, btw lol). After the third episode of the day I looked across to my bff and said "Oh MY GOD" and she just looked at me and wrinkled her nose too! I mouthed to her 'you smell it too?"..she wrinkled back and nodded her head. EWW.
I mean, really. One, you get a pass. Two or three? Come On! Excuse yourself! Leave! Go buy a dang bottle of Gas X! Something! If you have a 'problem' like this then maybe you shouldn't go to crops. Or sit by the door.
Jezuz.
So anyway, I was seriously thinking of saying something quietly to the offendee...and my friend was getting nervous cause she didn't want a scene, but I was getting SO MAD! Holy cow. At one point I did start saying out loud "OH MY GOD...what the heck?! What is with some people?"..hoping she'd overhear me and get the hint but she kept yakking away about the Ivy League schools her son was checking out and never heard me.
Thankfully, she left the crop early..right before I was about to say something..so I was spared having to say something.
So, what would you all have done if you were me? Suffer in silence to be polite? Gah. What would you have said if you would have said something? I'm dying of curiousity!
From now on, I'm packing a bottle of Gas-X to take with me to crops. I'll just put it in a paper sack and if I ever encounter this lil' situation again I'm handing the bag to the offender and without eye contact or a word.
here is the link to the original thread...the responses were hilarious!
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/mb.asp?cmd=display&thread_id=2537757 |
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Yvonne, lover of old garden roses, my DH Enrique, Marissa and Dahlia Lynn!
"what is yvoone class prom queen or something of pea high? Thats gotta be the big joke here under the bleechers."
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Erin in Okc
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| Posted: 6/17/2009 4:25:15 PM
That is TOO funny!!! I'm sure not at the time.
I had gas at work one time, and there was no way I could leave. But my co-worker was standing next to me. I kept trying to go down wind, and he kept following me. He didn't usually work that area, and I guess he was just trying to do what I was doing. I finally said, "You know, I had Taco Bell for lunch today, so you might want to stand a little farther over there when I come over here." He just laughed. I was SO glad he was such an easy going guy!
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elleceebee
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| Posted: 6/17/2009 11:08:28 PM
Glad to see this thread keeps popping up every now and then. I haven't been to a crop in almost two years so I have nothing to share, but I'm loving these stories. Keep them coming! |
"Take Rico, for example. He's clearly a world-class psychopath so we just kind of took that ball and ran with it." Skipper on how everyone's talents can be useful-- Penguins of Madagascar
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hulagirlatheart
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| Posted: 7/7/2009 11:31:42 AM
One of my friends and I often go to a crop in Northern Michigan, they have it 2x a year. We decided this past time to forgo that one and go to another one - figured we could crop at night and shop at the expo during the day. There was a charge to plug your machine in, then we only had 4 ft of space - to be honest there were e-mails sent out about these practices but I had already paid for my space and I fgured the goody bags would be worth it - WRONG!!! To top that off there were games and announcements almost every 20 min - the second night we went to see if the goody bags were better, stayed for less than 1 hr and went back to our hotel room to scrap. There were table dressing contests and while they were neat to see I have no idea how anyone could scrap with a HUGE pretend cake or tiki hut on their 4ft of table. Also if you paid more you could reserve space but it was not well marked so then my friend and I had to move. Let's just say it was not conducive to scrapping for me. |
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StuckOnPeas
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| Posted: 8/28/2009 4:41:44 PM
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krisj
BucketHead
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July 2009
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Loc: South of the North Pole
| Posted: 8/28/2009 5:52:18 PM
I am a regular at an LSS in my area. I am well known by all the customers cause I am always there..anyway. Sometimes I am placed with new croppers because I will be helpful and will show them where stuff is etc..
This is when I first started going to this store...
Well my first crop experience I was told I am going to sit you with "so and so" she said I am sorry but I know you can handle it..I said okay..So I am all set up..never been to a crop..kinda nervous don't know anyone..just hoping to meet people etc..so "so and so" shows up..she pulls out her SIL, her laptop I was like okay..wow..I say hello not sure how social she is going to be..she responds. Then she goes on and on about how she doesn't bring her cricut anymore to crops because people want to you it and no one can use her SIL cause it is attached to her laptop..etc..well I have never seen a SIL in action at this point before..so she talks to her laptop..at first I thought she was talking to me cause I had my head down and was working on something. So I respond to her..she just looks up and makes a face. I thought okay..so the SIL starts up..first I was shocked at how loud it was..thought okay..not a big deal..well she starts talking again louder cause she is talking over her SIL now..I thought she was talking to me again. She wasn't..so at some point I guess she is talking to me and I ignored her cause again I thought she was talking to herself..weird evening..gave the LSS owner a look when I left.
So I have now been to a few or a lot of crops..and I am friendly to everyone..I try to share and such..
So "So and So" is at another one. She shows up with her cricut this time..and brings every cartrage in there original boxes..sets up a wall of them on the table.
Another time..I usually pull the tables about an inch apart so if someone is doing something including me we don't jiggle each others table. I tell the people across from me that is what I am doing and they go..oh that's a great idea..so fine..I also use my heat gun..I do tell the people that if I accidently blow it in there direction please tell me..so I had some eyelets to set and I don't like doing it at our tables..I go to the countertop at the back of the crop room..now I am only setting 4 eyelets. I tell everyone I am going to hammer..won't be long. So "So and So" is there..she has her SIL again..constantly going..hasn't stopped..she complains to me about my hammering. Well generally I take things and don't say things in public. I don't like to cause a scence..and I know she is a big spender..(but I looked at the owner of the LSS who at this point and I are very good friends..I mouth to her I have been good..I have been very good..I am doing it..I am going to say something..so I causually say..I only did 4 eyelets..your SIL has been running all day. Stop complaining..everyone else wanted to say but I actually did. She didn't take the hint anyway..
I now ask who is coming to crops and make my decision on whether or not I will attend.
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krisj
BucketHead
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July 2009
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Loc: South of the North Pole
| Posted: 8/28/2009 5:59:16 PM
I was bad once at a crop.
I knew the ladies I was sitting with..there were 3 friends at a table and me..but they included me we had fun we were called the "don't do what they are doing table"
anyway..the three of them are talking..two of them have kids in the same class and they were complaining about the kids teacher..and from the story I heard they had every right to..but they were rightly mad and really mad at the profession..so they were saying bad things about teachers..(sorry any teachers on this board..they were mad and just venting) well they didn't know me that well at the time..so at the end of the story..I say to them. And the owner of the LSS is standing at our table at this point..I say you know I am a teacher right..so their mouths dropped..they turn pale..they start back peddling ..it was so funny..finally the owner said..she isn't a teacher she was just playing you..they all laughed after that.
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craftygaldesigns
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May 2009
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Loc: S St Paul, MN
| Posted: 8/28/2009 8:54:15 PM
Thanks for sharing, ladies! I got sucked into reading these for like the last 2 hours. LOL!
I am going on a retreat in 2 weeks. I will definitely be trying not to be "the one".
I actually went on a retreat a year ago, planned by a friend of mine. One of the options was to have meals catered. We all agreed this sounded good because we didn't want to have to worry about cooking. Well, as it turns out, the caterer prepared everything and dropped it off Friday night, not leaving much room for anybody's beverages or snacks in the one and only fridge in the place. The food tasted great! But, the chicken salad sandwiches were made ahead and the bread was all soggy....awesome flavor though. I just skipped the bun. The craft room is actually the converted garage of the retreat house....lighting was then than wonderful, but the kicker was that it was hot as all get out! No A/C and not a single fan to be found. My friend who did all the work to plan had no idea it would be like this. I felt so bad for her. Saturday, we're cropping and we hear this loud noise for the utility area....it's an alarm sounding because the septic system is full. Friend calls the owner,who lives over an hour away. She comes to see what's going on but in interim-no extra water usage....only flush if you have to sorta deal, if you know what I mean, no showers, no running the dishwasher. She finally gets ahold of a guy that can come out....Sunday morning! We end up eating dinner on salad plates, cuz we couldn't run the dishwasher. My poor friend...she felt horrible-totally not her fault.
The redeeming quality of the weekend was the Select Comfort beds! Absolutely lovely! Plus, I did meet two awesome gals that got in our retreat because we had space left and they were looking that weekend. They invited me on their spring retreat at a really awesome place. I'm meeting up with them again for the fall retreat in two weeks.
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Puddin Head
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June 2009
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Loc: Texas
| Posted: 8/28/2009 10:27:44 PM
I went to a crop in the home of a gal I'd never met (I was a new member of a scrap group). That house was the FILTHIEST place I'd ever been, and I'm not exaggerating! Not only was it cluttered, crowded, and ill lit, but the bathroom and kitchen were horribly, horribly dirty. It looked like the hostess hadn't cleaned her bathroom in 10 years - the toilet and sink, literally, were brown - and the kitchen had stacks and stacks of dirty dishes and a sink full of greasy water. The floors were stained and covered with debris. In addiiton, her little boy made the rounds to all the scrappers, trying to grab things with his gooey hands. Yuk! I stayed, but I couldn't bring myself to touch any surface in the house, nor eat anything prepared by the hostess.
I guess you could call that a "Slop Crop"!!! |
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BuckeyeSandy
Old Dogs are Best!
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June 2003
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Loc: With my dogs
| Posted: 8/28/2009 10:43:06 PM
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Sandy
Every MOM is a working mom!
"Retired" after 22 years of an Air Force Career
REMEMBER this Veterans Day
To quote Wayne Gretzky, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
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A. Neumann
BucketHead
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July 2009
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Loc: Springfield, Oregon
| Posted: 8/31/2009 6:47:20 PM
btt i had a lot of fun reading all of these over the weekend and now i want some more
anyone have anymore
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krisj
BucketHead
PeaNut 431,817
July 2009
Posts: 681
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Loc: South of the North Pole
| Posted: 8/31/2009 7:17:53 PM
This one is kinda funny story.
At the weekend retreat I spoke of before. It was at a YWCA camp (out of season of course) so we were staying in the cabins that the kids sleep in..Ours (3 of us were bunking together) was far away from the cropping area...and there is no lights so they told us to bring flashlights..we when we all got up Saturday morning no one thought to bring the flashlight from the cabin..cause it was light out..no one went back to the cabin at all..so midnight rolls around and we were tired so the three of us decide lets go..we then realized we have no flash light..I said okay we can use our cell phones to light the way..yeah..no. So we start walking up the path and can't see anything. My co-scrapper says I will go get my truck and light the path and then one of you run up to the cabin and get the flashlight and come back with me to park the truck..okay we said we will wait here..so she goes to get her truck me and the other lady are standing beside the forest and we hear a noise..we don't think much of it..then we hear a bigger noise and we (funny thing was I kept saying soon as I saw this place that it was a serial killers dream) and I am petrified of bears..so I immediately think bear..so we start running..the person driving the truck doesn't know what is happening cause we are running towards her..I was so scared to turn around and see what was going to be in the headlights...so we are laughing away and I hit the lady I am walking with purse..it made the noise we heard earlier..so then we realized that we are nutcases..and laughed and laughed.
So we did not get chased by a bear. there might have been but did not present itself a serial killer in the forest..and I was prepared to sacrifice my counterpart to whatever was coming after us. |
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grammanisi
peaing from my beach room
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April 2004
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Loc: Northern Indiana...Fighting Irish Country
| Posted: 8/31/2009 7:34:39 PM
LOL! That sounds just like something my DD and I would do! |
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A. Neumann
BucketHead
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July 2009
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mebarnet
I am not the Pea you are looking for
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August 2009
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Loc: Tarpon Springs, Florida
| Posted: 8/31/2009 10:08:12 PM
This story is a nightmare if only because of the absolute rudeness of some people.
Took a almost 2 year hiatus from scrapping. I would wander into the LSS every once in a bit if I happened to pass it on my way somewhere and one time, they invited me to their Sat night crop, 6-midnight. The lady said she would let me crop free the first time so I could get back into it.
Okay, so I go home and it takes me three days to pack up as I haven't done it for so long. I get there and things are moved and the room seats 28 people, 4 at each table. There are maybe 4 empty seats left and three of them are at one table. The lady looked "odd" but I felt bad that she was sitting by herself so asked if I could sit with her. All the other women had perfect hair,perfect nails,perfect clothing, all matching bags and totes it was like the stepford wives, scrapbook edition. One of them had a large notebook computer and they were watching - what is that show with terri hatcher, wives something? on dvd. Me, I am in jeans, a tshirt and flipflops.
Anyway, I realized within about 15 minutes why no one else sat with her, she didn't stop talking. But, after about 10 more minutes, I realized that she had some very interesting stories to tell (67 years old born in Germany, I was 38 at the time) and that we had somehow gotten into a weird rhythm of talking and scrapping and boy, was she creative! She cut all these different sized and shaped xmas trees by hand and cut decorations and pieced them together at the bottom of her layout, it was so beautiful. We were even both coffee drinkers while most of the other ladies were drinking beer or wine. Anyway, a truly enjoyable evening so I booked for the next one two weeks later. Please note for the record that not one other person besides the employees talked to us the entire evening and I left after 1am.
Crop #2, I arrived right at 6 and ran into the lady I had sat with the time before, she was leaving and looked very upset. Apparently, she had been cropping there for about 5 years, most of the other ladies were 2-5 year people also, I was a total newbie. This lady always sat at the same table for all 5 years, every single crop and all of the other people there sat in the same seats every time. What I didn't know was that you could actually go into the space before 6pm to set up and whatever and even crop for free but they didn't bring the tools or the food out until 6.
Well, the room was about 1/3 empty this time and at the table we had sat at last week, someone had gotten the cutting mats (this was how you marked you were there if you went back to get your stuff or whatever) for all 4 spots and put names on paper folded over the backs of the chairs. No one was actually sitting there. Every other empty seat had a bag,stack of paper,someone's purse, whatever on it so technically there were no empty seats.
I looked around trying to make eye contact with someone so I could ask if I could take a seat but of course, not one person looked my way. Whatever, I am way too old for this crap so I walked around the store, got $15 worth of stuff I needed / wanted and took it to the register and asked since I had prepaid and wasn't cropping, could I take a credit against the merchandise instead. Why aren't you cropping... explained the story, she marched right in there and told everyone who had bags or belongings on chairs, she would expect them at the register to pay the additional $15 for the "guest" they brought with them.
Begged me to stay but after that I just couldn't. she let me use a credit for the stuff and told me to come back the next day if I wanted for free while she did inventory. The store is closed on Sunday but she is there almost all day. So fine, I really wanted to use some of those tools. Went back and spent about 6 hours cropping by myself with full use of all the tools so it worked out but I have not been back since to crop and this was over a year ago but I still shop there during the day when the snob patrol isn't there.
Sorry so long, I saw this post the other day and wanted to vent and started but I was afraid of what I may have said (as my 10 year old says "mommy said a bad word" so I had to calm down about it for a few days. | |
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scoobers
Why, YES!, I am a princess.
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| Posted: 11/14/2009 10:54:28 AM
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myboysnme
one of those "entitled" peas
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February 2003
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| Posted: 11/14/2009 11:56:12 AM
Because I am dedicated to keeping this thread going, I will post another story. Friend and I paid to crop at a new LSS - it was just a 6 hr crop with light snacks so it should have been free IMO.
Crop space was created by moving racks, so some of the merchandise was blocked off if we wanted to shop. We were at a table facing the wall, and behind us was a woman who brought the kitchen sink, including her cricut, every cartridge, 5 totes, you know the type. She had all of her stuff lined up BEHIND HER. Well behind her was where my chair was supposed to be and maybe a place for me to put my tote, you know? So I would try to move her stuff whenever I could, but there was really no place to put it. Finally I asked her to put it on her table; she had one all to herself. She moved maybe two things and acted all pissy about it.
Then she starts talking all loudly about things like ripping off Walmart by returning broken game systems because Walmart will take anything back. Then, her two friends across from her decide they need a new trimmer, so they call up their CM consultant and put her on speaker phone and try to talk her in to coming over to the LSS with a trimmer they can buy and they are asking each other what else they want her to bring. Finally I told them that it is not cool to have other people come into a store and sell them items when the store is trying to sell scrapbook items. You would think the CM consultant would have a clue and say, "I can't come into that store and sell you those things."
My friend and I liked the store but as for crops, they should pay me $10 to crop there and a $10 store credit for my trauma. | |
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adamssa36
PeaNut
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November 2009
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Loc: Youngsville, NC
| Posted: 11/14/2009 12:42:59 PM
OK, this one isn't as exciting as some of the others, but I'll put it out there anyway. My sister and I always go to the Creating Keepsakes Conventions when they come to town. We sign up for lots of classes and crops, and of course, shop a lot.
We were in this one class that was moving really fast. The thing we were working called for liquid adhesive. Neither of us use liquid a lot being diehard ATG gun fans. My sister had bought a bottle just for the class and she was trying to get it open and still keep up with the fast-paced class. I'll never know exactly what she did, but the bottle pretty much exploded. All over her shirt (which was new), into her tote, and on the lady next to her. Being on the other side, I was spared. She was so mortified - it was a total accident and the lady next to her was pretty nasty about it. We made it through the class, but then had an excuse to go buy some new scrappin' T-shirts so she could change.
So I guess there's a silver lining to the story.
My sister now is totally sworn off liquid adhesive - if we are together and she has to use it, she makes me open it | |
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myboysnme
one of those "entitled" peas
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February 2003
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| Posted: 11/14/2009 6:57:15 PM
Oh, don't get me started on CKC crops and classes. I have never been to anything to compare to the pure audacity of CKC when it comes to nightmares, lol! | |
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arianwen
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Loc: SE Asia
| Posted: 11/15/2009 8:10:17 AM
OK I've got one, not truly awful, but we all felt awkward
I live in Kuala lumpur, Malaysia and we crop at the American Asscociation on a tuesday morning. This is my regular crop, there are usually about 6-8 of us, we all know each other well, and will go scrap supply shopping together etc, but we do try to be welcoming to new people too, as the expat community is very transient, and we all remember what is was like to bw new in town.
Anyway we are merrily cropping together one morning and one of the girls has brought in a breakfast casserole, complete with ham, bacon etc.
Then a local muslim lady comes in with who (we assume) must be her mother/ MIL/ maybe even grandmother, and parks her on an empty chair at the crop table. We all smile and say "Hi have you come to scrap?", even though she obviously has no supplies at all (but sometimes people like to come and see what we're doing etc). DAugther/granddaughter says in rather broken English "she's waiting for the quilting ladies"
The quilting group is Weds (same venue)
We say "oh the quilting group is weds not tues, if you go and ask in the office, they'll give you a contact number"
Lady replies "oh, no, they'll be coming soon" and LEAVES, leaving this ancient old muslim lady who speaks NO english sitting at our crop table right in front of a decidedly non-halal breakfast casserole.'
We tried explaining to said old lady that the quilting group was weds, and we were the tuesday scrapbookers, but she didn't get it. She sat there for two hours (bless her!) and much as we tried to make conversation with her, there's not that much you can say! We went to ask the girl in the office if she knew who she was, but no she didn't
She was still there when we packed up to go for lunch and we took her to the office. We have NO IDEA how long she was there after we left. We felt sorry for her really, it was a dump and run on behalf of the daughter! |
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Scrapbook Roadie
BucketHead
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November 2007
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Loc: Iowa
| Posted: 11/16/2009 11:06:37 AM
I was very embarrassed by a friend's attitude when we attended a crop together. It was a charity crop, $50 for the day. It included a goody bag, lunch and dinner, and prize drawings throughout the day. All proceeds went to a good cause, and I definitely felt like I got my money's worth.
My friend apparently did not. She complained about the space (2 ppl at an 8 ft rectangular table), chair (metal folding chair), food (sandwich tray and sides for lunch, Italian food catered for dinner), prizes, temperature in the room, you name it.
She was so negative that the next time the crop organizer was planning a crop, she had several people request NOT to be seated near her. They said that her constant complaining kind of put a damper on their experience.
I'm bravely posting this thinking that she might read this, and I HATE confrontation. Fingers crossed!! | |
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bisymom
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| Posted: 11/23/2009 12:52:08 AM
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