A fun (and expensive) way to spend a Saturday

I spent all of today on an all day bus tour sponsored by our local scrapbook store (LSS). We went to three other stores around our huge city. Our home store is the largest of the four, and has, in my opinion, the nicest staff of the four. The highlights included the make-and-takes we did at the stores (a beach themed tag, a magnet, a "stained glass" pin, and a squash book), and meeting other women with the same hobby. Two other stores had lovely staff, and quite an assortment of scrapbooking supplies, albeit rather crowded. Our second stop brought us to the lowlight of the day, a store that I have no interest in returning to. Why? I was sitting in the front third of the bus, and we all exited the bus in a polite row-by-row order, so I was one of the first customers from the bus tour in the store. I (along with other women from the tour) overheard one of the workers explaining to a "customer" what was going on. The conversation went something like this:

Customer: "What's going on?"
Employee: "Oh, there's a bus tour today. We're giving all of our customers a 20% discount today due to the inconvenience."
Me (in my head): "So WTF am I? Chopped liver?!"

There were a few other women who overheard it, and at least one called the employees of that store on that snarky comment. Once we arrived back at our home store, the owner was told about that incident. I did jump in and say that I head heard the same thing.

Apparently our money is no good there, so I won't be going back. No loss though, because I'll have more money to spend at the stores who actually appreciate our business. And if I go on another tour, I'll either just stay on the bus at that stop, or I'll just browse and perhaps mention that I'm not a valued customer there. Or, my favorite idea, fill up a shopping basket with embellishments and then just leave it for some poor fool to put back.

All in all, it was a great time and I can't wait to do it again. It seems that they do this tour every six months, which is enough time for my pocketbook to recover. LOL!