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Old 03-15-2012, 01:00 PM
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purplefiend
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Originally Posted by judylg View Post
Several weeks ago, I was in a quilt shop in a small town. A guy walked in and took off his coat, then he said to the owner, can you fix this, she said yes. However she was not ready to drop everything and fix it right on the spot, unfortunately he thought she would. They finally settled on doing it within the hour. I thought, typical mentality of some people, you can do it the minute they want it. I left, she was working on it. It was a Friday afternoon, I know he might have needed it for the weekend. But still. Hope she was able to get her money out of that deal.
I work inside a JoAnn's super store selling Husqvarna Viking & Singer sewing machines. We get lots of requests from people asking us if we do alterations or will embroider something for them. We're trying to sell machines not be an instant garment repair operation! grrrrrr
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