Chared Ellen
It will soon be the fourth of July weekend. It reminds me of my favorite fourth of July story from working at the store. Management changed hands a few times very quickly and we got this quirky little woman named Ellen. We all swore she was a drunk. She definetly was a idiet.
Anyway occassionaly local car companies would loan new cars to the store just for display and premotion. We promoted their car and their car brought in people to the store. This was an everyone wins situation, or so we thought. One weekend Ellen decides that we were going to raise a little money for the Childrens Mirical Network, I think. So she calls up the local Chevrolette place and has them send over a car. They brought over a brand new Outback. Eleen bought hotdogs, condaments, and a new grill. We parked the car up on the side walk in between us and the store next door. We rolled down the windows, threw up the hatchback, and slid back the sun roof. The car was looking good and drawing attention. It was forest green with cream colored leather interior.
Ellen had the future engeneer, Pip, and his assistant, Mark, put the grill together. They put the wheels on backwards so it rolled a little funny but we eventually got it outside where genious Ellen dumped an entire bag of charcole into the grill. Mark tried to explain to her that he thought that was a little bit to much, but she didn't care. She lit up the grill and threw on some hot dogs. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day and things seemed to be going very well. Mark, who was always a little cautious around Ellen, went inside to get the fire extenguisher just in case something should happen.
By the time Mark got back outside with the fire extengisher the grill was engulfed with flames. In a panic the two of them couldn't get the fire extingisher to work. Thankfully a nice man came along and put the fire out for them. The brand new red grill was now a nice crispy gray color. Genious Ellen decided there must be a better way to cook hot dogs so she pulled the grill up against the building out of the way. Mark said he didn't think it was a good idea to put the grill that was flaming only moments ago up against the building and near the car, but again Ellen didn't care.
About ten minutes later the grill reignited. Ellen grabbed the fire extengisher and sprayed the heck out of it. She did manage to get the fire out again, but she also managed to coat the car as well. Fire extengisher dust is a very odd substance. We had to take the car through a car wash, which took care of cleaning the outside. We never did get the inside cleaned. The more we wiped and scrubed the worse it got.
Needless to say Ellen eventually got fired because she is an idiet and the Chevrolette place has never loaned us another car. At least the store didn't catch on fire.
Anyway occassionaly local car companies would loan new cars to the store just for display and premotion. We promoted their car and their car brought in people to the store. This was an everyone wins situation, or so we thought. One weekend Ellen decides that we were going to raise a little money for the Childrens Mirical Network, I think. So she calls up the local Chevrolette place and has them send over a car. They brought over a brand new Outback. Eleen bought hotdogs, condaments, and a new grill. We parked the car up on the side walk in between us and the store next door. We rolled down the windows, threw up the hatchback, and slid back the sun roof. The car was looking good and drawing attention. It was forest green with cream colored leather interior.
Ellen had the future engeneer, Pip, and his assistant, Mark, put the grill together. They put the wheels on backwards so it rolled a little funny but we eventually got it outside where genious Ellen dumped an entire bag of charcole into the grill. Mark tried to explain to her that he thought that was a little bit to much, but she didn't care. She lit up the grill and threw on some hot dogs. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day and things seemed to be going very well. Mark, who was always a little cautious around Ellen, went inside to get the fire extenguisher just in case something should happen.
By the time Mark got back outside with the fire extengisher the grill was engulfed with flames. In a panic the two of them couldn't get the fire extingisher to work. Thankfully a nice man came along and put the fire out for them. The brand new red grill was now a nice crispy gray color. Genious Ellen decided there must be a better way to cook hot dogs so she pulled the grill up against the building out of the way. Mark said he didn't think it was a good idea to put the grill that was flaming only moments ago up against the building and near the car, but again Ellen didn't care.
About ten minutes later the grill reignited. Ellen grabbed the fire extengisher and sprayed the heck out of it. She did manage to get the fire out again, but she also managed to coat the car as well. Fire extengisher dust is a very odd substance. We had to take the car through a car wash, which took care of cleaning the outside. We never did get the inside cleaned. The more we wiped and scrubed the worse it got.
Needless to say Ellen eventually got fired because she is an idiet and the Chevrolette place has never loaned us another car. At least the store didn't catch on fire.
