Fairie Foam

I had the past two days off, and when I came in to work, I saw that a display table had been cleared and had started to be filled with a new shipment of fairies and dragons that was much larger than the first shipment we had a couple of months ago. One of my co-workers was specifically in charge of making sure the fairies were all displayed, and I commented to him -- "That table has so much cleavage going on" to which he responded--"I know! Our fairies are so dirty!"

This round of fairies and dragons aren't as interesting as the first shipment because there are no lesbian fairies, but they are as sexy and scantily clad as ever. Their entire thighs are exposed and their breasts are practically bursting forth from the poor excuses for tops they wear. But beyond their scandalous clothing, the posing of these fairies is ridiculous.

We have a fairie sitting on a crescent moon with a miniature dragon perched on her shoulder. We have an endtable with a glass top and a fairie crouched around the base of it. Some fairies are sitting on mushrooms with morbid looking wings while other sit on the ground with spellbooks in their hands and pentacles on their chests. Most of the fairies have coy smiles or expressions on their faces that win many of our customers over. Many of them comment that "those are so cool!" and cause me to lose just a little more of my faith in humanity.

We also have a number of skull items. One skull has it's mouth open and a large ruby where it's tongue should be. We also have an incense burner with skulls decorating one end of it. There is also a skull that is shiny and blue. But my two favorite things in this entire shipment are 1) A skull decorated with tribal designs with a top you open up to find a smaller skull which you can also open up to find a skull that was smaller still and so on, and 2) A dragon perched atop a skull that changes colors.

A funny side note is the mess that the packaging these items come in end up making. They each come in a box filled with foam inserts. The co-worker who has in charge of putting the fairies and dragons and skulls out on display brought several of the boxes out to the counter at a time and worked on labeling them between customers. While pulling these things from their boxes and foam, the foam inserts were constantly crumbling and sending little foam balls everywhere. We kept finding bits of it on our clothes, and I even had to tell my co-worker that it was in his hair and on his cheek. It kept gathering on the ends of the pens we used at the counter and clinging to our fingers and paperwork. One customer was writing a check, got some on her checkbook, and then couldn't shake the foam bits off of it. It was a horrible mess and I'm sure we will find the foam in unexpected places for days.