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In my country there is probably few smart things you can learn about life, and unlike in other places where school is everything, education is always paid well and the harder you try the better results are, here everything is quite opposite. Here are some great truths that you should never forget if you live where I live: money is everything, weapon is everything, if you can’t steal what kind of person are you? Simply put, if you see wallet on the ground you don’t think about returning it to the owner, quite opposite first thing on your mind should be the amount of money you can find it. Same goes for stores and restaurants, the best ones are those able to pull every last penny out of someone’s pocket. I never saw real purpose in country being like this, but honestly? It worked for last thousand years why wouldn’t it work now? Off course you should never think the people here are actually stupid, its is actually fascinating how huge intellectuals and geniuses people are in order to scam you, no matter whether you are the richest guy alive or poorest person in the world. This specific line in our people comes out mostly during holydays, when scams start popping here and there like flowers in the spring only because people are ready to pay any price just to satisfy their loved ones. You would think that so many people around who are being scammed are actually those who need help, but then trust me, during holyday season no real salesman is shocked if some things go missing from his /hers shop. We are the best when it comes to stealing and making scams, so good that honestly I still don’t know why there isn’t college for that in our capital city.

But lets go back to fantasy store where I work at, as I said its holyday season and just like whole world we have to put some holyday things top hand from our ceiling, door and window, to be honest so many holyday stupidities make wanna puke, not to mention the fact that temperature rises easily thanks to all those things flashing and making irritating songs come out of their speakers. You probably figured by now that I am not really holyday person, yeah I love Santa and all that junk about New Year, but lets be reasonable its middle of winter and even though heating system should be working I have no intention of being fried like a french-fries inside of the store. Hence, in order to save myself and make sure that at least somebody will enter the store without being killed by a heat stroke I like to make decoration simple but effective, like 2 meters high Santa who is actually DJ isn’t really the most important thing. At this point I already knew people who came in and out of the store, but holyday season somehow changes people and honestly saying the shocks kept coming until the end of it. These shocks were mostly made by people who never stepped into fantasy store and who absolutely had no idea what FANTASY means, but they wanted to be smart and give some rather unique present to their loved ones. STUPID!!!!!!!

One of the best examples were two mums who came in to buy something for their ‘’little’’ boys who came along with them, both of them were 13 years old and definitely had no need to enter any kind of store with their mothers. OS with faces saying they have just gone through greatest 6tortures in the world they came in followed by what can be only described as two scarecrows. Two women that are over forty years old shouldn’t, and I repeat myself SHOULDN’T even think about wearing mini skirts and definitely take off their make up from time to time, because these two didn’t have fresh make up, they looked like river shore with layers of mud that have been accumulating over the years. Here we have very nice name for people like those ‘’fensers’’. To continue, their sons actually smiled while entering the store, which seemed almost like smiles of hungry pups to whom you just offered milk, also it was obvious they came in because they wanted to see the stores not their mother, but that didn’t stop two cows to look at my clothing and react like I have some really nasty disease on myself. They go around the store and suddenly one of the mothers asks:

‘’What is this woman?’’ she says while showing toward She-Spawn from spawn reborn collection. I smile and start explaining whole story about spawns, she asks me about other spawns we have and I show her them too. Both boys seem interested in how to buy Spawn comic and I start explaining them, taking that they are more interested in comics I show them some fantasy books we have and on my greatest surprise both of them are delighted. Their mothers on the other hand push the talk about spawns and start pulling out of me every bit of information I have, off course whole discussion was filled with their ignorant and sarcastic comments. Lucky for them I have patience built up McDonald’s so I didn’t read ct until boys said that they decided what they want as their New Years present. Mums look at books they picked and start yelling at them, but for everything to be even worse they start yelling at me and saying that it’s my fault their children want to play with hell spawns and read books about things that doesn’t exist. After all they are good Christians and no Christian mother would ever allow their sons to fill their heads with Satan’s handy work.

Now I was puzzled, both of them looked like pair of worn out street prostitutes and there they were spilling on me how religious they are, so with sign I open the door of the store and tell them to leave if they want taking that in fantasy stores religion and politics have absolutely no connection with reality, not to mention our reality, and yes I yelled at them, just a bit though., too bad I didn’t yell more. Off course they left the store with their noses high and boys stayed in just for long enough to tell me ‘’bye’’ and run away. Two days later one of the mums came back and bough books for boys saying how she was always ready to support her son’s imagination, I think she though I didn’t remember her. Boys on the other hand are my regular customers; they play Yu-gi-oh! Card game and come to visit me every now and then so they can buy new boosters for their decks.

During the holydays I learned couple of very interesting things about parents:

1) Parent will always buy his child toy parent wanted to have when he/she was little
2) Family members will always buy what you tell them to buy
3) Brothers and sisters will buy something person really wants
4) People without children are bigger children then real ones and will usually buy gift for them while buying something for their friend’s child

Interesting, huh?