An actual exchange yesterday between myself and a very young employee, at a Large Craft Store (that kind of rhymes with Lindsay Lohan):
Me: I’ve looked around, but I’m obviously not looking in the right place…do you know where I could find a darning egg?
Emp: blank stare
Me:
Emp: I don’t know what that is.
Me: It’s a wooden egg-like thing, sometimes with a handle, that you use when you repair socks. I have some handknit socks that I need to repair…
Emp: (looking at me like I have two heads) people…fix…socks??
Me: uhh…yup. I guess I’ll have to find one on the Internet, huh.
Seriously, I would mot have been surprised if she said, “people…knit…socks?” …that’s how incredulous she was. It was pretty humorous. And if she only knew I’d spun the yarn…imagine the reaction then. 😉
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May 5, 2008 at 5:03 pm
knittingelephant
OMG Sadly, I’m not all that shocked. Go figure! Hope you found the egg and fix the socks soon. 🙂
May 6, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Mokihana
Sounds pretty typical. And not only that, they don’t know how to make change if they have to. They don’t know how to add without a calculator. Or subtract. Nothing. Then you get the blank stare again.
It’s a sad world, is it not?
June 8, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Susan Liber
I am not surprised at this either. I bought a wooden ball at a craft store to use as a darning egg. It works pretty well for me.
October 6, 2008 at 7:30 pm
jodiodeeo
What craft store was this? Can’t figure out the rhyme.
October 6, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Julie
LOL….JoAnn 🙂
December 22, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Hira Animfefte
Consider yourself a consciousness-raiser! I was not aware that people knit socks until recently myself…much less still darned them. Hats, scarves, gloves, sweaters, all these I was aware of; but socks? Not until I acquired a sock-knitting friend. Now I go knitting at the local yarn shop and half the knitters there are knitting socks, and I don’t bat an eyelash at it.
I’m not surprised at the ignorance of the Jo-Ann’s employee…