Lego Lady
I loved playing with legos when I was a kid. I remember constructing an entire town with my brother one time. It was super fun.
Most toy stores in the US that carry legos usually sell complicated preconstructed elements. My interest has always been in starting from scratch with the very simple little bricks.
I finally found a lego store that I thought would have the basic bricks. I walked into the store enthusiastically. The store clerk who greeted me started with a simple question: “What age is the child?”. Ouch. Now how is that a good marketing plan? If I had been any less confident about my legitimate lego interest I would have turned around or had pretended I was shopping for a kid. Instead I just raised my arm and pointed my index finger at me. Then I asked for the basic bricks section.
In this same mall – located on Michigan Ave aka Magnificent Mile section in Chicago – is this lego lady at the West end of the third floor. There’s a guy on the east end of the second floor near the store itself. I wonder if I’ll find any others during my next visit.
August 9th, 2005 at 9:20 pm
Ha ha, I can just imagine the look on the clerk’s face as you pointed to yourself! I recently went maternity-clothes shopping with my mom and when the saleswoman greeted us, she immediately asked for whom we were shopping. I thought this was funny, as it seemed pretty obvious to me, but in retrospect I realized that when you work in a maternity clothes store, it is probably safest to *never* make assumptions about who’s pregnant and who isn’t. Perhaps the clerk at the lego store should have taken a lesson in marketing from the saleswoman I saw. 🙂
August 11th, 2005 at 6:15 pm
This made my day. 🙂 You should post pictures of your future Lego creations.