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Grancey · 02-07-2011, 11:05 PM

I hate the process of having to pick out a new brand of product because I am so unnecessarily picky about things, so I tend to be loyal to the brands I use. This applies to cosmetics, milk, crackers, shampoo, anti-perspirant, butter, toilet paper, jeans, socks, soap, cat food, pens, etc... and the list goes on and on. I had to stop myself from listing more. You can probably predict what happens to me. Inevitably, a brand of product is altered or DISCONTINUED. This leads to a minor crisis in my life. Anyway, a funny thing happened on the way to New Orleans. For several years I had used a particular Merle Norman color of lip gloss. It's the only thing I bought at Merle Norman, and I loved it. One December our local MN was out of stock and informed me that the entire line of lip gloss had been discontinued. I had no warning so I had not had time to buy extra to get me through the process of finding something new. We were heading to New Orleans for the weekend, so we called every Merle Norman in the small towns along our route to find out if any of them had any of my lip gloss remaining in stock. We ended up stopping at 4 Merle Normans on our way to NO to buy what they had left. This was before we had GPS or Onstar, so we had to call these stores to get directions when we got close to them on the interstate. It made the trip a little longer, but we saw some very small towns we had never seen before, met some interesting Merle Norman southern women and it made a good story to tell?

02-07-2011, 11:05 PM	#11 (permalink)
Grancey Life's short, gotta hurry... Location: land of pit vipers	I hate the process of having to pick out a new brand of product because I am so unnecessarily picky about things, so I tend to be loyal to the brands I use. This applies to cosmetics, milk, crackers, shampoo, anti-perspirant, butter, toilet paper, jeans, socks, soap, cat food, pens, etc... and the list goes on and on. I had to stop myself from listing more. You can probably predict what happens to me. Inevitably, a brand of product is altered or DISCONTINUED. This leads to a minor crisis in my life. Anyway, a funny thing happened on the way to New Orleans. For several years I had used a particular Merle Norman color of lip gloss. It's the only thing I bought at Merle Norman, and I loved it. One December our local MN was out of stock and informed me that the entire line of lip gloss had been discontinued. I had no warning so I had not had time to buy extra to get me through the process of finding something new. We were heading to New Orleans for the weekend, so we called every Merle Norman in the small towns along our route to find out if any of them had any of my lip gloss remaining in stock. We ended up stopping at 4 Merle Normans on our way to NO to buy what they had left. This was before we had GPS or Onstar, so we had to call these stores to get directions when we got close to them on the interstate. It made the trip a little longer, but we saw some very small towns we had never seen before, met some interesting Merle Norman southern women and it made a good story to tell? __________________ Quiet, mild-mannered souls might just turn out to be roaring lions of two-fisted cool.