Shopping fun with Amy and Ava

A note from Amylynn: Ava is off in France, but before she left I made her write a couple of blogs to help me out while she’s gone. Enjoy!

Amy: No, I’m not driving you anywhere else to look for boots for your trip to France.  I swear we’ve put 1082 miles on my car already, all at lunch, on that fruitless quest. 

I did NOT make them up

Me: Please?!  I just know if we go to one more store they’ll have them.

Amy: They most certainly will not.  No store has them because you made them up.  I can’t watch another sales girl quit over your demand for grey suede ankle boots with a wedge. (note from Amylynn: OH SWEET HEAVEN! It’s not just the boots. There is also a fruitless search for a structured gray suede purse with an outside pocket and silver hardware that’s not too big and not too small. Just thinking about it and I want to lay down)

Me: How about if we go to the nail polish store than? 

Side note – we call it the nail polish store because it’s really a wholesale supply place for manicurists and all they sell is nail stuff there.

Amy: How can you be out of pinky off-white already?  Weren’t we just there for that?

Side note: I only wear pinky off-white nail polish.

Me: I want greige.

Amy: Excuse me? 

Beautiful Greige

Me: Griege – grey beige.

Amy: Yuk.

Me: How is that helpful? It’s all over the fashion magazines this month. 

Amy: They’re not going to have that, it sounds awful.

Well, they had it.  It was a little more grey than greige but I think it will do.

Amy to owner of store who’s always really nice to us and sells stuff to us wholesale even though we’re not licensed manicurist: That color is ugly, don’t you think?

Me before he can answer: It’s in all the magazines this month.  And look they only have one bottle left.  It must be popular. (note from Amylynn: It’s a ridiculously ugly color. I’m not just saying that. Even the sales guy made a face when he thougtht Ava wasn’t looking. Imagine the color nail polish a zombie would wear, now make it a little uglier. Blech.)

Amy: Tell her there’s only one bottle left because it’s ugly and you only bought one.

The poor owner of the store didn’t know what to say.  He clearly wanted to sell me the bottle of polish – not because it was the only one he bought but because it’s a fabulous color and he wanted me to look nice in Paris. (note from Amylynn: Ava spends an inordinate amount of time fretting that the French people will make fun of her. Now I’m positive of it. “Ha ha ha.” They’ll chuckle with a French accent. “Look at that stupid American. The practical joke we leaked to Vogue totally worked.”)

I’m thinking about getting him to drive me around for those boots . . .

Another note from Amylynn: She found the boots – she ordered three from Amazon and they all worked. Her darling husband Ed picked one and made her send the rest back. Do recall that I drove her to every single store in this town during our lunch hour over the past month and she finally found them on Amazon. I could kill myself.