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aggiebonfire00
Proud Texas A&M University Graduate
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when memories closed, my group had to find a new place to crop. so we decide to try out this newer store. we were excited because it was a 6p.m.-2a.m. crop and they served food and drinks.
one of my girlfriends was on her way, so i set up all my stuff and shopped until she arrived. i went out to help her bring her stuff in, and when i walked back into the crop room, all my stuff had been moved to a different table. i was like, "WTF???"
come to find out there were some ladies that arrived after me that always sit at that table. i wouldn't have minded moving my own stuff if one of them had approached me, but i thought it was so rude that they would move my personal belongings. when i confronted them and the store owner, they tried to make me look like the bad guy. the owner wouldn't refund our crop money, so we stayed and i made sure i went out of my way to talk loudly and rudely about them. for a long time, i took it personally. until it happened to another lady that i knew. then i knew those ladies were just all out jerks. i know another well-liked pea was treated like crap when she was trying to get some things together for the class she's teaching at Kaitlyn's Crop.
i think that karma is a b****. the store is now closed. the lady that ran it was an idiot and had no customer service skills at all. and one more thing, owners of stores.....keep your dogs out of the store. no one wants to buy paper or embellishments from an establishment that lets dogs sniff and lick stuff. GROSS. |
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Sunshine36616
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I crop every month with the same group of ladies at Archivers (all peas). Reading some of these stories makes me glad!
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gotcreativity
To Boldly Go Where No Pea Has Gone Before
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sky8284
StuckOnPeas
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My nightmare is also very sad. A year ago this past April, I attended a crop in the neighboring city(about an hour away). One of my best friends was in the hospital in that same city. She had been in the hospital for 3 months and we had a group of ladies that took turns staying with her daily. I wanted to not attend the crop but I had company coming from out of state to attend and I hated to disappoint her. I dropped my friend off at the crop(she knew some others there) and went to the hospital and stayed for awhile then I went to the crop. I became uneasy as the afternoon wore on and told my friend that I was going to go back to the hospital to check on my friend. She insisted on packing up and taking me. When I got to the hospital the nurse said she had just called her son and one of the other ladies. My friend was hemmoraging. It took the others about an hour or so to get there so I spent time talking with her telling her things that I felt that I needed to share with her. We were there with her when she died that night. If it had not been for the crop taking place that day, no one would have been there early that evening. I wasn't scheduled to be with her until Monday. I have learned to trust my intuitions as I felt that something was wrong and that is why I went back to the hospital. I believe that it was meant for me to attend the crop and to be there. Sorry if I made anyone sad. I am thankful that I was there.
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daisysmom
Coffee-Fueled Pea
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Rhonda, I'm so sorry about your friend! What a comfort to her that you were there with her. You are so right about intuition--I've had it a few times, and it's always been the right thing to listen to my "little voice". |
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BucketHead
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I just relaized that I am an obnoxious cropper! I cut up and make jokes and try to make everyone laugh...guess I should tone it down....
Samantha in San Antonio
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Sunshine36616
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| Posted: 7/19/2007 7:40:48 PM
I just relaized that I am an obnoxious cropper! I cut up and make jokes and try to make everyone laugh...guess I should tone it down....
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rae310
BucketHead
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I don't think I have any crop nightmare stories. Except being so embarrassed because I forgot to replace the hand towel I put in the wash with a new one in one of my bathrooms before the guests arrived. Someone politely reminded me that there wasn't a towel in the bathroom. I practically ran to the linen closet to get the new one.
I love having people over to crop and do my absolute best to be an excellent host. No kids. No DH. Dogs banished, unless they are being so absolutely adorable just watching the scrap action and staying out of the way. Tons of yummy food and drinks. Recently added goody bags, MnTs or a door prize. |
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bethany1023
StuckOnPeas
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| Posted: 7/19/2007 8:17:12 PM
I don't mind those that try to make everyone laugh, or are being "loud". To me, you're making everyone welcome. I doubt you're as loud as you think you are.
The line gets crossed when someone is obviously trying to work and they get interrupted. After reading other comments on the boards I've just started bringing my ipod with me and it has seemed to work well.
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myboysnme
one of those "entitled" peas
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I have been obnoxious in the past when I was with a group of friends, and i have especially been cranky with other people's behaviors and talked about them to my friends.
These days I prefer to crop pretty much steadily working and not be bothered by others; I try to position myself away from other people so for that reason I really hate assigned seating. The people that moved my stuff would have had a big scene for real; but then I would have had my stuff already unpacked and spread out on the table for me and my friend.
I will speak up though if I hear someone talking loud and I disagree. I was at a crop recently that happened to have a CM rep there. One girl asked out loud how do we know how to place our photos on the page and the CM lady rushed over to instruct her to crop all of her photos first and then try to figure out placement. I spoke up and said I disagreed. We had a little back and forth discussion and then I went back to my work. At least the girl knew the CM lady's way wasn't the only way. I also stuck up for a friend of mine and asked the offenders to change the subject because they were badmouthing him.
I've been to more nightmare crops than I can count, but mostly because of lack of space, loud noise, crying babies, cell phones; etc. I think CKC's crop was one of the worst.
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Mrs. Kravitz
AncestralPea
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| Posted: 7/19/2007 8:48:01 PM
I posted about my agrivating experience with Mrs Butt-insky when it happend....it was a crop at my neighbor's church, a few of the people were quite nice, but most were snooty and extremely "goody goody"....the lady across the table from me had a lot of the same things I did (stamp sets, stamp pads etc) This was when the big letters from SU had just come out. I am more than willing to share with anyone who asks. So several people asked if they could borrow my big letters, of course, I said. I had several other stamp sets with me as well. So one lady comes over and she and I are looking at my dif stamp sets and trying to decide which one looks best with the pre printed title she all ready had (or something like that). So then Mrs Butt-insky pipes up "HERE! Use MINE! Mine are in alphabetical order! It's MUCH easier to find what you need!" The lady just sort of looked at me like "sorry" and took hers. I really wasn't mad, was just like "whatever dude". But I did get the dig in "mine WERE in alphabetical order until I drove here!"
my happy moment with her was early on, when she first arrived and realized she'd left her pics at home---no offense to those of you it's happened to! |
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addicted2scrapbookin
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| Posted: 7/19/2007 9:55:13 PM
oops!! That sex talk was probably me and my girlfriends. LOL we have dirty minds. LOL
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lancene
PEAlicious
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January 2003
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| Posted: 7/19/2007 10:25:10 PM
I VERY rarely crop outside my home, but every time I've tried it's been pretty bad. The first was a CM crop - many years ago now - and supposedly non CMer's were welcome. We paid something like $20 to attend and it was supposed to include dinner and tools, the regular deal. In the first place, it was the middle of summer and I live in a REALLY hot climate and the hostess wouldn't turn on the air conditioner. She lived in a huge, expensive house but was too cheap to make her guests comfortable. There must have been at least 20 women in that house. Then she served "dinner" - a lasagna that serves 10 and a quart of powdered lemonade. To top it off she felt entitled to criticize our non-CM related products. Needless to say ... it was many years before I attended another crop of any kind, but I got roped into one as a store employee at LSS - the store owner's daughter was there and I had to share my already limited space with her. She was a nice little girl, but my stuff was never where I left it and it's just so much more convenient at home. So no actual horror stories from me, but just no motivation for me to go back for more. |
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kdteacher
BucketHead
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Well, I wasn't the offensive one, but my aunt was! She watched my 3yo daughter two days a week this last year for a few hours for free, so I treated her to an all-day, all-night Scrapbook Expo event in Costa Mesa, CA. I apologize to the women who sat with us from 6 to 12am---my cousin was starting her divorce and her husband had just told her he was gay. My aunt was so shocked she talked about it all night, alllllll nnnnnnnniiiighttttttt. I was so impressed that the three women at our table "showed" an interest. I mean it really was an awful thing to find out about (he had told my cousin the night before), but these other people could care less!
BTW, it turns out he had a girlfriend for one of the two years they were married, not gay, just trying to stay married long enough to get his green card!
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tamythaj
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| Posted: 7/19/2007 11:04:13 PM
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread!
I've gone to numerous crops where individual croppers or situations have annoyed me. I suppose the one thing that annoys me the most is when I am sitting at a table and it is obvious that I am trying to write (journaling) and someone begins hammering, erasing, or otherwise knocking the table away. At one crop, there was a lady sitting next to me that was leaving a little early and she started packing up. Well, her tote was between her and I (we were at a round table) and it took her forever to do whatever it was she was trying to do, all the meanwhile she's knocking the table with her shoulder. I waited, patiently at first, then I just started steamin' inside when what felt like five minutes later she's still bumping away.
I guess my worst crop experience was at a weekend crop put on by a lss (no longer in business) that was from Fri afternoon through Sunday afternoon. The crop was advertised as 48 hours of non-stop cropping. When my friend and I arrived, one of the friends/family members of the owner gave us some of the lowdown (sp?) on where things were and what events/classes were going on. She then hinted that the crop would be open (that night) until the last cropper left (which she thought woudlbe around 2 a.m....well, she doesn't know me then) and then they would reopen at 8 a.m. What?! My friend and I took our "assigned" table, which happened to be near the front door and next to the owner's table where she and her family and close friends were to crop. A little while later, we heard some commotion at the front door and it was a cropper in a bit of a...shall we say disagreement...with the lady at the door and then the owner. She said very loudly, "You advertised a non-stop crop and that's what we signed up for!" Not to mention that my friend is retired military and still wakes up around 5:30 a.m. and would have been ready to go back to cropping before 8 a.m. Anyway, much later than night, when my friends had gone back to the hotel, I was cropping (I'm a night owl...hey...just thought of a lo using those crazy owls! LOL) and had to listen to them complain all night about the ladies...who were still cropping and cropped through the entire night. They were saying such mean things and saying things like "When do they expect us to sleep?! We've got to teach classes all day tomorrow. Wha, wha, wha... All I could do was sit there and think, you're the idiots that put this whole thing together! You should have thought about that before you started telling everyone (and adverstising) otherwise. I finally couldn't take it anymore and decided to go to the hotel room, though I could have kept going.
My friends and I usually go to one major crop a year, like SDV or maybe Cropfest this year. Otherwise, we just go to each others home. We know each other well and what gets on each others nerves, etc. Heck, we even know when the other is PMS'n...actually left early one time (pretended to be tired...seems like a lot of us use that excuse) due to my friend being so....uummmm...irritable. She called and apologized the next day, when our other friend called her out on it later that evening.
I probably get more done at home, but I do like to be around other people who love scrapping, the supplies, the atmosphere, etc. |
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Twinki
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| Posted: 7/19/2007 11:54:45 PM
Oh, my gawd I am so glad I did not read any stories on hear from any of my friends about MY crops. Because as hard as I try to have a successful crop at my house, I just cannot pull it off. I cannot even seem to pull off going to one! I am a an ordinary chic, social, friendly, teacher, mature yet fun 43 yr. old. with a fabulous husband. Kids are out of the home, etc... So, you say, what's the problem...first off, I advertise in the local teacher's reporter and get tons of response. invite all of my friends as well. Spend all day cleaning, preparing snacks, even goodie bags for my first crop. NO ONE SHOWED! I was so heart broken. I just could not believe that not one soul came after so many RSVP's. So, I blew out all the candles and went to bed...
Next time I recruited even more....got more calls. One lady responded by e-mail and said she was allergic to animals, did I have any. I said that I only had outdoor cats and that they rarely came indoors and assured her that my home was very clean and pet dander free. Even so, she replied, could she come over and do a "walk-through" to make sure. I thought about it for a minute and invisioned answering the door, introducing myself and then her just walking through my home sniffing and doing the white glove test. I became pretty annoyed at her and didn't reply. That second crop I had a few people show, but it was pretty stale...women that didn't bring anything to work on...they just wanted to watch. Snore... So, it gets better.
The next crop, I have to light all my candles of course, before everyone arrives...at 6pm. So, ohhhh about midnight...that candle has been burning for SIX WHOLE HOURS. Well, at 2am, me and Elaine are the only ones left and husband is in bed with the door shut. We are talking and cropping away when we hear a loud POP!!!!! We turn around to find a large FLAME on my end table. I run over to it and start blowing....HELLO!!! Could not think of what else to do. It blew the flame out, luckily, but blew embers on my light colored carpet. We stomped them out, leaving ting burn marks. I just sat there agasp with my hands over my mouth saying OMYGAWD! OMYGAWD! Then, Elaine and I just lost it... we started laughing and giggling at the absurdity of the situation. I was sooo frightened the smoke alarm would go off and my dh would wake up. The table had a round burn mark in it and it was brand new! UGH! We decided to turn the table around and put a lamp over it. we cut the burn marks out of the carpet with a pair of scissors and carried the broken glass out to the dumpster. You would have too if you were married to a Polish man from New Jersey. They just don't understand housefires during scrapbooking parties at 2am on brand new end tables! Believe me.
So, then I go to the LSS for a Get-er-Done weekend Crop. My goodness,
I'm gone Fri. night and part of Sat. morning and I hear my husband's voice.I say to myself, Lord, please don't let it be so. But, no...it is so. My 6'8 charismatic flirtatious husband comes strolling in the room, " Okay Ladies, Let's get to work!" So, all the girls look up and it begins..."Is this your husband?", "Oh, you were my basketball coach in high school", "Oh, you you were my daughter's coach!" "Sit down for a while...we don't mind!" So....my husband CRASHES the LSS crop and embaresses me ....of course I never told him that.
One more....this last time....it was going to be perfect. Husband had a night of boxing planned to watch on tv in the secludded MB while we were on the other end of the house in the den. FAR apart from the loud, flirtatious, Polish guy from NJ. Okay, so....everyone gets here, takes a tour of our home...walks through the MB where the TV is on and everyone notices that it is ON. We go in the den and start croppin'. I'm called into the MB by the loud NJ Polish guy, "Hey, Honey, why isn't the TV in here working?" ( Can everyone say OMYGAWD ?) We all went in the bed room and tried to get his TV to come on (which was just on) and we could not. It was G-O-N-E- gone. So, when all the girls left the room, he said to me in his most guilt laden voice, "So, just what am I supposed to do for the next SIX hours?" I answered, I don't know, but I have guests that I need to get back to dear, I am sorry about your TV. Maybe you can go to your son's and watch the fights." There just wasn't much i could do but get back to my guests. Well, about five minutes later as I was sitting in the den floor cropping, I looked up and my husband was standing in the kitchen facing us. He had his arms crossed and he was watching us pouting. I knew what he was wanting so I had to ask. I said, "Honey, are you wanting to watch the fights on this TV?" He smiled brightly and said , "Would ya'll mind?" Everone politely said "No, of course not!" So, in he came, climbing over all of our cropper hoppers and plopped on the sofa. He turned on the fights and did not say a peep all night. Even when we were gossiping we noticed that he was not paying attention. Ha!
So, there! As much as i hate to admit it....I am the crop nightmare myself.
I am the one that stories are made of. I have to laugh at myself though to keep ya'll from laughing at me! So...ha ha!! |
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CA-scrappin
It's 5 o'clock somewhere!
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 12:47:11 AM
Wow these stories are great, but sad.
My worst crop story is the store that was too small and had too many pets. The dog was injured so it was laying on a pet bed in the middle of the crop table. now I only crop with friends and go to crops with friends I know. |
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looptloop
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 12:55:17 AM
I've been relatively lucky at crops! I've only been to crops at the LSS, would be way to scared to go to someone's home!
The last crop I went to this topic came up and I was surprised how many bad crops people have been to (and still go to crops!).
I'm enjoying reading your stories and hope to never have one! |
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Sunshine36616
God peas protect me from your followers
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December 2004
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 7:00:36 AM
Oh my gawd, delete your extra posts |
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qtPEA2t
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
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May 2005
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 10:31:41 AM
Oh my gawd, delete your extra posts
ROTFL!! Too funny.
Hey Sunshine - I swear the next time I visit my SIL in Duluth, I hope to come to one of the ATL crops. They sound like fun. |
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MomOfOneSon
Writer: Terran One novels
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 10:38:55 AM
You know it might be nice just to point out how to delete the posts instead of being disrespectful and slamming someone.
To delete extra posts just hit the X that only you can see on your posts. |
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Sunshine36616
God peas protect me from your followers
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 10:52:30 AM
You know it might be nice just to point out how to delete the posts instead of being disrespectful and slamming someone.
I wasn't going to assume they didn't know how. Some people don't realize they've posted 4 times after we have a board freeze. |
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Margemomof4
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 11:55:38 AM
I went to a 12 hour crop held in a hall. I did not know a soul. We were packed in tight. There was not enough food and the hostess ran out of toilet paper by 2 pm. She had no intention of getting more. I ran home and brought back a few rolls along with a stop at the deli for food.
However, I met some great people and had a wonderful time. We laugh about it every time we sit together at other crops. Even though the crop was lacking, the ladies I sat with made up for it. | |
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BucketHead
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 11:58:06 AM
Back when we were stationed in Texas I was invited to a crop at a friends house. ...She had invited a large group of us to come over to her new house and for of us that were scrapbookers we were invited to hang out for a crop and dinner. All of us thought "wow this is great". We were all anxious to see her new 3500 sq ft house and she had a smallish scrapbook room but we were all drooling at the fact that she had a special little room to herself for scrapbooking. At the time this was such a new concept to have a scrapbooking room.
We get there and we're having an okay time, then she serves us the dinner from hell - dinner consists of a couple of greasy bags of chips, some dip and hot dogs fresh from the microwave- no buns. Oh and nice warm tap water as the ice maker was not hooked up and she didn't think to buy a bag of ice. But the best part was when she announced that she was going to charge each of us $10 for coming to her crop and using her tools. Everyone had brought their own tools and when I think back about that crop 7 years ago ...what kind of tools were there to use beyond a paper trimmer and some stencils,? I mean really, LOL! BY the way I did not give her any money and as far as I know now one else did either. I never went to another crop at her house again. We all got together the next day and we were all talking about how she wanted us to pay for attending her crop...we figured that she was trying to make money from the crop to be able to make a house payment  |
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Sharna_G
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can_i_pea_2?
We are the Boys of Old Florida
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 2:10:51 PM
You know it might be nice just to point out how to delete the posts instead of being disrespectful and slamming someone.
She was kidding around, did you not see the Smiley Face????
(Guess this is just another of my negative b*tchy posts)
Oh, and by making this part of your signature just makes it so much better, doesn't it. (eyeroll) |
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sweetpickles
StuckOnPeas
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 2:18:13 PM
I've told this story before on this board but it's been a few years . . . a group of us regularly cropped at an LSS that rented it's crop room after hours. We had been to the store a few times and when the store closed at 8 or so the owner or her husband would stay in the back room while we cropped til midnight. But they always kept the piped music going and, although it was beautiful music, it was religious in nature and quite "reverant" for want of a better word. Anyway, you know how it gets when girls get together. We like to laugh and giggle the night away. The music just didn't help that along. So on the 3rd visit one girl asked the owner's husband if after the store closed he could put on some different music, maybe a current pop station. And he said to her "Why, you Christ hater you!" Now we are all Christians and active in our respective churches and the comment was offensive. You should have seen the look on her face. But she didn't say anything at the time, none of us did, and we should have. Then he calmly asked if he could have some of the food we had brought. One lady had brought a cake he loved and I think he ate more than 1/2 of it that night. But there was a damper on the evening and none of us had an appetite anyway. We all left early and never went back to that store. I wish now we had said something, rather than sit there and looked at each other saying, "did he really say that?" "I can't believe he said that." |
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WorkingClassDog
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 3:01:35 PM
These stories are great.. I love to go to crops and most of the time they are fine..
Once I was invited to a lady's house to crop and her and her friend decided to let me know that they liked me and wanted me to be part of their group.. even going so far as to invite our entire families to a Christmas party.. Mind you I had only met her once and didn't know anything about her or never met her family. Thought that was strange. It was like I was in high school....no... grade school..
They also did retreats for about 30 scrappers so I decided to go to that.. BIG mistake...they told me since they were the hostess they got the bigger space and everyone else had to share. They then would talk about people who they invited to their own crop. Of course since they "Liked" me I got to sit next to them (Lucky me!!) and could hear them gossiping.. I found that extremly unprofessional (as hostess). If you feel the need to make fun of someone please find a spot and gossip in private instead of in front of everyone. Never again did I go to their crop. I am sure I am out of their "tribe" (that is what they called themselves.)!!! WEIRD...
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hannahbugsmom
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 3:51:07 PM
My friend and I try to crop once a month at a chain store. Unfortunately they assign you to a table and it seems we always get stuck next to very annoying people.
One lady came in and acted like she owned the place, demanding a specific table near the back workspace because she and her friend were going to be working on ALLLLBUUUUUMS all night. Uh what the h*ll do you think we are all working on? When a lady showed up who was assigned to her table she told her that she needed to get reassigned to a diff table because they would be working on ALLLBUUUUUUMS ( i swear she used that word 100 times).
I could tell it hurt the lady's feelings so I went out and told her she could sit with us and forget that old bitty. She thanked me and said it had hurt her feelings cause she was by herself and this was only her second crop ever. Well turns out she had a 3-4 inch stack of paper and a sack of ribbon she was trying to get rid of. My friend and I got first dibs.
The last time we went there was some lady there talking about her NAANNNNY all night. She kept telling her cropping friends how MUCH stuff she had and if they needed to borrow anything just let her know. At one point she said I just don't have any more room for these brads, I'm going to need to buy another container to carry them in because I have soooooo MANY.
I had a pic on my phone and showed it to my friend which caused several other people to ask to see it...including the Nanny lady. When her friend gave me a compliment on my phone the Nanny lady said "oh yeah, I had that phone 2 years ago." At one point when responding to her "friend's" story about her husband being a resident she said "Oh, I remember when we were POOR."
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jediannie
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 7:27:00 PM
I used to crop at this lady's house and she never had TP and her bathroom (& whole house actually) was filthy-dirty. We'd bring snacks for the scrappers to share and her kids would come out and take bags of the candy or chips with them. She also would name-drop "famous" scrappers like she was their best friend when she'd only met them maybe once. Needless to say, I stopped going there. Now my scrapping buddies are so much fun! I'm very lucky.  |
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darvi1
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 7:38:28 PM
I swear I'm still laughing!!! Ok, I forgot one -
Me and another pea paid to go to what was advertised as an all day crop with snacks and dinner. The crop started at like 10 am and had make & takes and all that stuff. You could pay for 1/2 a day or the full day, my friend and I paid for all day. So we got there about noon, there were only about 12 people total. "Snacks" consisted of about 2 bowls of pretzels and water with crystal light packets. We thought that lunch was included (which it wasn't), so by 2 or 3, we were starving. Then we found out that we were the only 2 people that paid for all day! By like 5, we were dying and there had been no mention of dinner. Then dinner finally arrived - pizza hut (yuck!) and we just felt awkward because we were the only two people there still cropping, so we left soon after. And because my fellow pea and I had brought enough stuff for 20 people, random people kept wandering over to our table rifling through our things because they thought we were selling things.
The 2 saving graces for the crop: 1) one of the vendors was our local LSS and she had awesome stuff for sale, and 2) we had the best muffins I've ever tasted in my life - I had red velvet.
We still laugh about that crop to this day, can't believe we were the only 2 that paid for all day - think they would've told us, ya know???
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lazydazy
BucketHead
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March 2004
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 7:40:19 PM
Mine isn't as bad as some of the ones here!!!
I normally host the crop at my house (I'm a CTMH consultant), so i don't get a lot done because I am hosting! Well I saw M's was having a crop nite so a friend and I went. The people were very snooty, there were two kids at the table next to us, wanting help and to use our stuff. We are teachers and two teachers were sitting across from us and didn't say two words the whole night! A couple of the attendees were M's employees and had the personalities of ants. Not Friendly at all!!
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 7:47:21 PM
What tickled me about this line was "the" rabbit. As if, you know, every crop has a rabbit right?
You mean there aren't? hehehe
You know it might be nice just to point out how to delete the posts instead of being disrespectful and slamming someone.
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Oh, and by making this part of your signature just makes it so much better, doesn't it. (eyeroll)
ITA! Good grief.
I think the worst crop I've ever been to was at this lady's house in Phoenix. I don't even remember how I met her, but she lived in a rather run-down neighborhood and only two of us showed up. We spent the entire afternoon dealing with animals, her DH, and her kids. Not fun.
The other crops I've been to have been fun. I used to crop with a great group of ladies at a credit union (in a conference room) one Saturday a month. Everyone was real generous. All you had to do was mention you needed something and just about everyone would look to see if they had it and if they did, it was yours. Then I started cropping with another group of great ladies in a private home. Her husband always made us dinner and there was always great snacks. When a friend and I started doing Weight Watchers, the husband asked for points friendly recipes so we didn't have to miss out on anything good.
Since I stopped going to those crops (the credit union lady stopped doing hers, I don't know about the other one), I've been to a couple of crops at an LSS, but they're kind of far away and I don't like driving far when it's late. |
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 9:11:13 PM
Oh my goodness - I have so many!
A couple weeks ago I was sharing a table with another 3 women (strangers to me) - one of them had recently bought some sex toys and was explaining in graphic detail how she had used them with her husband!! I caught her eye a few times hoping she would get embarrassed and stop but she carried on going. Blech..... 
At a weekend crop in a hotel I sat next to a woman who brought a pack of photos, a calligraphy pen and some patterned paper. She refused to buy anything from the CMC but kept asking if she could buy my supplies!!!!
At another crop at the LSS a woman spent the entire evening setting eyelets. She banged the hammer about 10 times for each one - it was like being on a construction site. So many people got up and left.
At another recent weekend crop I sat opposite a woman who showed me photos of her grandkids every 5 minutes and constantly talked to herself. It was such a distraction I couldn't get anything done.
At another weekender I sat opposite a woman who had bought a shelving unit from home and set it up on the table to house her supplies. I sat and looked at a wall of wood for the next two days!! |
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bethany1023
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 10:14:15 PM
I've seen women at crops who bring that kind of shelving, I just assumed it was some kind of joint thing with the other women at the table! Oh man, I am so bringing my tape with me next week… |
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TinCin
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 10:30:05 PM
I must be one of those obnoxious croppers too. My friend and I went to a weekend CM crop at a hotel 90 min. away from home. All the info said children were not invited or included. Well wouldn't you know that nobody brought their children EXCEPT one of the CMCs. Well my friend and I are chatting away, met a couple of really nice, funny scrappers and pretty soon everyone is telling off color jokes and making pointed remarks. Nothing truly obnoxious but funny. Next thing we know the CMC and her "group" are making remarks loud enough for us to hear that we need to tone it down because there are children present. Ummm, no I don't think so. I left my kids at home like the flyer said to. I actually asked her how much her children had paid to be there for the weekend. Needless to say we saw much less of the kids after that. Holy cow, we had paid something like $150 or $200 to stay at the hotel and crop for the entire weekend. If I want to tell an off color joke and it offends your kids - get over it.
Now if it had been posted as a family affair either I would not have gone or I would have kept it clean. However, I do have a potty mouth and am very prone to throw in a damn or hell every now and then. If you sit too close you may even get worse than that but I don't shout them and I don't do it intentionally. So, chalk me up as another nightmare scrapper. 
I guess there are worse things in life to be called.
ETA - Not a cropping nightmare but I joined a scrapping club at a little town near mine. First week there, I sit down to wait for the class part to start and the LSS owner asks me to move because I am at a "regular's table" and they will need all the available seats. So I start to move to another table and she says not to sit there either and finally sits me in a corner table at a chair facing away from everyone else where I remain the entire evening by myself. Although I did change seats (at the risk of being reprimanded) I did have to wonder why the owner would run the risk of alienating a customer (although not a regular) and wouldn't try to include me in with her "regulars" so I would keep coming back. NO PROBLEM, I finished out my commitment and never darkened her doorway again. Luckily the rest of the classes another "outcast" joined me and we had a great time all by ourselves at our little corner table. |
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It was a PJ crop a few yrs ago, and a girl "who was Published" forgot her pictures....so she was "bored"
She complained the whole time and then started going into detail about her DH's sexual preferences and how he likes to "do it"...she got louder and louder and more details and details....how they make the dog next door howl, had the cops called because they make so much noise...really outrageous stuff. I think she felt she should have gotten more attention or something
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OMG I think I have been at a crop with this obnoxious person too! She likes to talk about herself non stop and really lays it on with the sex talk. She was telling people at the crop that she was a celebrity in the industry and was going to have her own product line. What a total joke! I saw that she was teaching a class at event a year later and avoided it like the plague. I just couldn't take another second of it.
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haveitall
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| Posted: 7/20/2007 11:50:16 PM
I went to a crop last night with a new bunch of ladies. I didn't know them, they were really nice. Only problem, her kids kept coming down and bothering her and the rest of us. We were there to make cards and a couple of the ladies had no idea what to do. I don't know if I will be going back. Her little dogs kept coming in and running all around. I'm suppoet to have them at my house in a couple of weeks, don't know if that will happen.
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daisysmom
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| Posted: 7/21/2007 2:14:43 AM
Here's another one (and I'm loving your responses, BTW!)--
A group of us used to crop at a friend's house once a month. She and her husband own a chicken farm out in the country. Once you get over the smell, it was a great place to scrap. We usually set up our tables in her extra room, but one hot day we decided to set up our tables in the barn (where her husband stored his equipment, not where the chickens live, and very clean). We left the doors open and enjoyed the nice breeze.
WELL, about halfway through the day, a big breeze kicked up and all of a sudden a little dust devil formed nearby (like a tornado, but small and close to the ground). It started coming our way, and we all began covering our stuff as best we could. It came right into the barn and over the top of our tables! By the time it was over, everything (including us!) was covered in a layer of chicken poop dust!!! I had to go home and scrub every inch of my bag and supplies, and had to take a shower to get the poop dust out of my hair. We laughed about it for years after that.
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tamythaj
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| Posted: 7/21/2007 4:43:22 AM
"By the time it was over, everything (including us!) was covered in a layer of chicken poop dust!!! I had to go home and scrub every inch of my bag and supplies, and had to take a shower to get the poop dust out of my hair."
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| Posted: 7/23/2007 7:22:45 AM
Her husband always made us dinner and there was always great snacks. When a friend and I started doing Weight Watchers, the husband asked for points friendly recipes so we didn't have to miss out on anything good.
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| Posted: 7/23/2007 8:18:51 AM
these stories are great! They are giving me quite the chuckle! |
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TerriG
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| Posted: 7/23/2007 9:08:41 AM
How about the scrappers whose dh's don't seem to be able to stay home alone. And you know its the wives who make them come hang out, sometimes the dh's just look so darn sheepish.
Don't I wish!!! The DH that comes to the crops I go to is loud and opinionated. He's working on his own books of places that he's traveled for work so he thinks he's all that. But, he's got comments on every discussion that comes up, every show that comes on the TV, and of course, we have to watch what he wants. No, I don't want to watch Jackie Chan/CSI/men shows when I'm out cropping - I could have stayed home for that. He runs out to get snacks because he doesn't think much of the ones the hostess has so we all have to look at what he bought when he gets back. All I can think when they're there is, "You paid a babysitter for this?" Luckily, he doesn't come every time, but I haven't gotten the guts to ask if he'll be there before I agree to go. |
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| Posted: 7/23/2007 10:08:35 AM
I have one. It happened at my scrap club's Christmas party. We always have a dinner and then open gifts. I don't know what you call it but we pick names then you can either go get a gift from the pile or take some else's gift. It's always lots of fun. We had a $25 limit this year.
So a new woman comes to this party/crop. Never been before. I've never met her. She is loud, rude, obnoxious, and it's soon evident that she is some kind of nut job. I (fortunately) was very busy trying to get the meal together (another nightmare story for another time) and (luckily) was sitting across the room from her but could hear her voice clear across the room.
When we sit down to start the gift giving, she plants herself in the middle of everything and proceeds to criticize and bad mouth every single gift. She talked about how that gift must have come from the attic, or how that gift must be recycled. I was absolutely speechless and that's saying a lot! Anyway, somehow my name was last and guess which gift was left? Hers. It was obvious it was an album from the shape of it but it was a recycled album that was old (the pages inside were yellow) and there was no wrapping on the album so it was obvious that she just plucked something out of her scrap room to bring. It didn't even make it home-I chucked it.
Her husband came to pick her up and he tried to take a bunch of the exchange cookies. I had to politely tell him that they were only for those who brought cookies to exchange. He was very insulted that I wouldn't share some "extras" with him.
I found out later that a fellow member had had some disagreement about money with them and we banned her for her bad behavior.
A few months later I saw her at an Expo and my heart skipped a beat. I sat at the back of the room and hoped she wasn't packing. I scooted out of there pronto.
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writermom1
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| Posted: 7/24/2007 8:59:06 AM
It was a PJ crop a few yrs ago, and a girl "who was Published" forgot her pictures....so she was "bored"
She complained the whole time and then started going into detail about her DH's sexual preferences and how he likes to "do it"...she got louder and louder and more details and details....how they make the dog next door howl, had the cops called because they make so much noise...really outrageous stuff. I think she felt she should have gotten more attention or something
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OMG I think I have been at a crop with this obnoxious person too! She likes to talk about herself non stop and really lays it on with the sex talk. She was telling people at the crop that she was a celebrity in the industry and was going to have her own product line. What a total joke! I saw that she was teaching a class at event a year later and avoided it like the plague. I just couldn't take another second of it.
I think my "nightmare" story is that you drop these juicy hints and don't name names! 
My only other "nightmare" that springs to mind is more the CMC's (my friend) than mine.
She has an open six hour crop one Friday a month in a church hall. Very nice crop and accomodations. No complaints there.
A new woman arrives and proceeds to take a call on her cell almost immediately. This ends up being HOURS of "OmyGo#! and "Fu@# No!" screamed (and I mean literally SHOUTED - no kidding) into this cell phone.
In between calls she would hang up and regale us with how her MIL (mother?) had just been arrested, then take another call, more swearing and shouting.
It was crazy.
My poor friend was finally forced to just take her aside and tell her to take it outside.
At a different crop a different 'nightmare' of sorts in that I felt SO BAD for the woman in question. She was brand new, had brought a baby (but it was previously okayed) and was clearly a brand-new scrapper looking for some fun and adult conversation. She was very nice (from what we got to know of her) and we were trying to make her feel very welcome (don't we all remember those "new mom knowing no one" days?)
Well... in a total accidental move she spilled a bottle of water all over the crop table. In one fell swoop said water just DRENCHED the lady across from her - and all her pictures. They were self-printed so the water immediately began to destroy the ink (there was no "quick wipe it off!" Granted, the good news was the the cropper-in-question was VERY GRACIOUS about it - and while obviously stricken hastened to assure the woman who spilled that she had all the photos on disc and could reprint them.
We honestly all hastened to assure the newbie spiller that it was no big deal, it happens, ha ha but she was literally shaking. Her hands were shaking she obviously just felt awful and ended up leaving shortly afterward.
You know that awkward, heavy feeling when you feel badly and are embarrassed FOR someone else - it was that the rest of the night. We just felt awful that this poor woman probably left with a 'bad feeling' about scrapping in general just because of a simple accident that could have happened to anyone (and we "Regulars" blamed ourselves for not thinking to warn a newbie of the "no liquids on a scrap table!" rule).
I hope that woman looked back on it and laughed later. I felt so bad for her.
Otherwise, it was eventually a few of the "regulars" who turned me off. I'm all for a little girl talk but this became what can only be described as an ongoing attempt to "one-up" each other in the "I have the biggest a@# for a spouse" contest.
It was just constant negativity about how their DHs were just the stupidest most horrid men on the planet, how they hated them ("no really, he's an a@#", how the DH preferred the dog, truck, baseball over her/the baby.
At first it was fascinating in a train wreck kind of way. After months of this I personally just ended up thinking "fix it or SHUT UP!" I don't need to sit here and be your sounding board for free. Don't people get paid to listen to this cr@#?
The few times anyone did try to "help" or offer constructive advice it became clear that these women seemed very invested and even proud of their "cra@#y lives" and had no interest or intent in changing.
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SunshineScrapper1
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A few months later I saw her at an Expo and my heart skipped a beat. I sat at the back of the room and hoped she wasn't packing. I scooted out of there pronto.
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Janet I didn't know you ran into her at an Expo. OUCH!
You're right this woman was a nightmare...and at of all crops our annual December crop. The nerve of some people.
These stories are great. After reading some extreme stories I can say I've been fortunate for the most part.
The only nightmare story I can think of happened a few yrs. ago. Remember when the CIS papertaker was just coming out? Well, I had attended an Expo and had purchased my papertaker at J's or M's before attending the Expo's Crop. I shopped that day then headed to my car and loaded my "stuff' for the crop. I pulled in my stuff and got in line with the rest of the ladies.
A woman at the front of the crop line (in a scooter) rolls over to me and acusesses me of stealing her papertaker. I'm like "WHAT?!" I assured her that I purchased my papertaker at the local craft store. I came into the building with it.
She called over one of the event security ladies and told them that i had stolen her papertaker. I'm hopping mad by now (especially since my dh is a cop for the city I was in). She went on and on and I just ignored her. I few minutes later after she made an idiot out of herself (with all eyes on us) a woman came over with a papertaker filled with photos (mine had LOTS of paper in it) and ask the scooter lady if this belong to her.
She said yes where did you find it? It was by the concession stand where you left it.
Did she apologize to me? you guessed it NO!!!!!!
She was the first one into the crop and I was as far from her as possible. So that's my nightmare...i enjoy reading these stories. |
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| Posted: 7/24/2007 9:57:36 AM
Mine isn't necessarily a nightmare, but it wasn't roses and candy:
I attended my first LONG crop (18 hours) in February. My two friends came, too (one came in from out of state). We had so much fun - great space, awesome food, cool make-and-takes. Absolutely the best scrapping fun to be had. (The store who puts in on, A Scrapbook Gallery, ROCKS.) Around midnight (the crop was until 2 am), we were getting a little punchy and were thinking of packing it in (originally had planned to stay the duration). The decision was made for me when I got a call from my poor dh. He said, "Uhh, could you please come home? DS is throwing up." My sweet 2 year old got a stomach bug. He ended up puking exorcist-style on and off all night. Not much sleep to be had. But that's part of being a mom! To my dh's credit, he had everything cleaned up and sheets changed by the time I got home.
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sofiona
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| Posted: 7/24/2007 11:28:47 AM
Is there something about scrapbooking that attracts more than the fair share of "crazies" to this hobby?
Is it the competitive and addictive nature of this hobby that leads to such insanity? Or have these people been terrorizing anyone they touch in any situation for their whole live and are just now ending up attending cropping parties? |
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