dear goodwill.

dear goodwill,

you and i have been friends for quite some time now and i've really appreciated all the great things you've done for me over the years.

thanks again for today's special present you picked out just for me (seriously, who decided they could get through life without this umbrella?)

i'm hoping that because of our close relationship,you will know what i'm about to say is from the heart, and only for your own good.

goodwill, half (three-fourths) of the fun of the excursion to your store is the thrill of finding something amazing hidden in a stack of stuff that's, well, less than amazing. when you go through and pull all the 'label' merchandise out of the pile and put them on their own 'designer' rack and charge twice as much for them, shopping is no longer fun.

but because the store is all about 'good will' and what not, i was willing to accept that by charging more for the lucky brand dungarees you can help more people get off of the streets, and that's a fair compromise. especially since at nineteen ninety-nine they are still a steal.

but goodwill, target brand jeans are not, i repeat-not, a designer label. you cannot charge nineteen ninety-nine for a pair of used pants that probably only cost twelve ninety-nine to begin with. lets keep the designer rack open for, i dunno-brands that are at least found in a mall? sounds fair to me.

furthermore, i went to ross today looking for shoes and found black boots i wanted for a cheaper price than the used black boots at your store. need i remind you that your merchandise is used. if one could spend twenty bucks on a pair of shoes, one would be at wal-mart or target (with the exception of people like me who really like the chance of finding something vintage-although, i did go to ross, so maybe vintage love isn't even enough anymore).

also, it's currently 2010. the yellow sony walkman/cassette player probably doesn't need to be locked in the jewelry case.

kk thx bye,
mel.

p.s. stop putting ridiculously cute shoes in the window that i'm willing to spend one million dollars on when they are only a size four and the only person in the world they would fit is the person who donated them. thanks.