large lovely "charming" ladies

last year for cori's big bday all those close to her bought her a charm for her charm bracelet that was also bought. it took nearly a year for us then to get around to taking it into the jeweler to have the charms soldered onto the bracelet, then another 3-4 months for us to get around to going back into the jeweler to pick it up. and then....curses....the bracelet was not to be found at the store! the store owner looked high and look under all the "c" for connors files. he could not find the bracelet. he told her she needed her receipt because he could find nothing and the store kept two copies of all transactions and both of those were missing! hmm. finding the receipt was not an easy task because well, it was 3-4 months ago and cori changed purses and cleaned her car out many times and it just wasn't to be found. a few days ago i went back to the store with cori, without her receipt, just to see if they had found the charmer! nope, no record or anything close to it under connors or cori files. the owner asked if we remembered who helped us. we described the clerk - his regular and though she was not working that day he called her up and asked if she recalled the transaction. she didn't. as he was about to hang up i asked him to tell her that it was two "big" ladies (we like to think of ourselves as large, lovely ladies) that brought it in and we had a younger girl with us - annie. he laughed and said "you don't want me to say that". cori and i emphatically said "yes we do" and cori added "yeah and it was for my 50th birthday so we are old too!" he repeated our comments and lo and behold she remembered us. and just as she was telling the manager where the bracelet was filed, i simultaneously said "pineapple enterprises"! (that's the name of one of cori's business). sure enough the bracelet was safely filed away, waiting to be picked up. yeah! she wore it all day.

moral - it helps to have a memorable physique!