Embroidered With A Realization

(For those that don’t know, embroidery is the process of sewing a design onto an item with thread and needle, and there can be thousands of stitches in the smallest of designs. After getting details for an embroidery order from a customer, I need to place a “marker” onto the spot she want the item embroidered so that our embroidery department will know the proper placement. I pull out a small piece of paper and a straight pin, and I’m getting ready to pin the paper onto the intended embroidery location.)

Customer: *frantic* “What are you doing?!”

Me: *puzzled* “I’m letting our embroidery department know where you would like your name sewn.”

Customer: *looking slightly disgusted* “Don’t stick that pin in there!” *now looking at me wide-eyed*

Me: “Ma’am, if you don’t want this one pin to be stuck in your item, then you definitely do not want to have it embroidered; it will be stuck thousands of times.”

(I was looking at her, bewildered, as I slowly pushed her item back in her direction. In a matter of seconds you could literally see the realization of what had just happened and how stupid it was pour over her face… PRICELESS!)