Tales of the strange-A Vendor's first

[NorCalPiper]

So everyday USPS comes by and delivers or picks up packages related to my store. A package arrived yesterday that I assumed was my vests that I had just recently ordered for mysself (Ahhh....small luxuries). I opened the box and was immediately disappointed. Just one vest, color was wrong and it was like an XXL. Buttons were right, but I was immediately pissed, took it off, and went to other things. In the evening I was showing my wife, and she remarked before she threw the boxes, that she filed the invoice that was in the box. I retrieved it and was almost floored!! In October of 2008, my VERY FIRST order was a gentleman who wanted an Argyll vest. He paid and said that he would send measurements later. A month went by....nothing. Then 2, then 3, then 6......I emailed-Nothing. I called-phone disconnected. So I let it go.....
So as I read the invoice , this was my very first customer, 1 1/2 years later, sending me a vest that he wanted duplicated, but in black(The one sent was blue). He apologized and said that shortly after his order, his house burnt down and he and his wife had been in insurance limbo living in a hotel for the past year and a half. Now things were finally settled, and he'd like his vest. This was my very first customer.....I guess I should go ahead and get him a vest!!!!!! Not quite as strange as the gentleman who wanted me to make a hair sporran from his wife's hair that was going to be cut for the first time in 17 years, but a strange tale non-the-less.

[davidlpope]

This is OT, so I apologize in advance, but is that a new style of kilt hose in your avatar? Can you show us a bigger pic?

Cordially,

David

[azwildcat96]

is that a new style of kilt hose in your avatar?

On my monitor, it appears that there is a green mickey mouse head in the yellow patches???

Sorry, back on topic...did you say you had a request to make a human hair sporran?!?!?!?

[bricelythgoe]

I love the story! Weird how somethings work out.

[OC Richard]

Your story sort of reminds me of Tom Hanks' Castaway where no matter what, he's determined to follow through on that one customer's package.

Yes those hose DO look like they have the evil logo of three circles making the head of Mickey Mouse. (I work for The Mouse.)

[McFarkus]

That's a very cool story. But I'm even more intrigued about the request for a hair sporran made from a guy's wife's hair.

[Cynthia]

For those asking about the human hair sporran, the old thread about it is here.

[azwildcat96]

For those asking about the human hair sporran, the old thread about it is here.

Thanks, for the link. I just read each and every page hoping for pictures...then got to the surprise ending on page 5.

I still think it's creepy, but now I'm intrigued! Does one really exist somewhere?

[Hothir Ethelnor]

I wonder of those are shamrocks in the yellow on that pair of hose...

[T.C.McRae V]

What a story...he must have really wanted the vest.


Off the topic again, Think of all the possibilities of a human hair sporran
-strait
-perm
-braided
-pig tails
-frizzy (on humid days)