Dressing Up The Wrong Tree

(I am working the fitting room in a clothing store on Christmas Eve. It is pretty dead until a customer walks up to me holding three tree skirts.)

Customer: “Hi. Can I try these on?”

Me: “Uh, ma’am, you know those are tree skirts? Right? Those things you put around the bottom of a Christmas tree?”

Customer: “Oh, I know. I just thought they’d make great Christmas ponchos!”

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