Adventures in Party Shopping

My Goodness. Why is it so had to shop now? I don't have much time to get all of this stuff yet so many things are slowing me down. I'm just about ready for the party I'm throwing for my birthday. We almost have all the liquor. All we need to do is order food on the day of the party and get beer and wine. Why was it so hard to find drink pourers? You know those things that bartenders screw on bottles of liquor. It's cleaner than just spilling stuff in a cup.

You would think it would be as easy to find as those stupid things you stick on the ends of corn on the cob. NO WAY. I first went to Target. I found so many shakers but no pourers. It's TARGET! They are suppose to have everything. I wasn't disappointed until some lady announce, "Attention target shoppers due to a phone issue we cannot accept credit card purchases at this time. Cash only." Now that annoyed me. So I went to an ATM because I still wanted to buy shot glasses and a shaker.

That was yesterday. I took a break from shopping because work got in they... Go figure. Today I was on a mission. My roommate and I talked to our old drinking buddy Jason, who's in Milwalkee for law school. He said that Crate and Barrel had them. I looked on line to find that the dang on pourers cost $2.50 a piece. I thought that was too much for something that I would only use for parties. HELLO. I could get "2 buck Chuck" for that man! So I went hunting. I went to JCPenny's and Hecht's. They had cool stuff involving serving alcohol but no pourers. I fought stupid cabbies and non-driving idiots all the way to Pentagon City Mall. I went through Macy's and Nordstrom to find expensive crap that no one would use or the same cool stuff I found at Hechts (thanks Federated). I thought I finally found the light at the end of the tunnel when I walked past Williams-Sonoma. HA! This guy pointed me to $7-$14 pourers. I'm still laughing at that store. This guy showed me one of the pourers which had this cool little ball that stopped the alcohol from going through when it's just sitting on the table.

Ummm... doesn't gravity do that for me!

So I leave the mall just done with the hole thing. I walked across the street to Linen 'N Things. I asked the customer service people and they filled with so much hope. The hope I had when I started this ordeal. Alas, they ran out of them. Apparently, they came in a pack of 2 for like 4 bucks or something. I was just tired and frustrated. I walked to my car which was all the way near Nordstrom just pissed. I reached the garage and began to exit when I looked across the street and saw Bed, Bath and Beyond.

Suddenly, I heard Jason's voice telling me, "I think I saw them at Bed Bath and Beyond." I parked in their lot which has those annoying parking meters. There was already 52 minutes on the meter for my space. Could this be a sign? Could it be that pourers are part of the "Beyond" in the store title? I finally found a customer service guy and asked, "Please tell me you have the pourers for liquor bottles." This guy went straight to the pack of 12 pourers for $3.99. SOLD! I thanked him, paid and happily went home. I couldn't believe how long it took to find those stupid things. Now I'm ready to party.