It wasn't a rock...

Before we get into this post, a little video to put you in the mood….

Yes.

Today we will be discussing.

Lobsters.

Not just any lobsters.

Lobsters that rocked Borders.

Last Friday, I was a half hour away from the end of my shift. It was my head manager’s last day. Our District Manager was at the store finishing up things with Dave (head manager) and generally being nosy.

I was grumpy, tired and hungry when this kid walks up to me. We don’t get off on a happy foot because the first thing out of his mouth is, “Um…do you work here?”

I hate this question. No, kid. I wear this earpiece and huge name tag because I think they’re trendy.

After explaining that YES I work here, the kid proceeds to ask me if I knew there was a lobster in the cooking section?

Again, I think this kid is being a smart with me. Of COURSE there are lobsters in the cooking section, we are in BOSTON – people have whole cookbooks dedicated to lobsters!

I give him what I’m sure is a intrigued perplexed look, not at all disbelieving or annoyed and he says, “Um..it’s a real one.”

Well that got me out of the section I was shelving in a hurry. We walk to the cooking section and there, among the bargain cook books, sits this dead lobster.

Seriously, people. I just sat there for a few seconds staring at the thing. As I’m staring and laughing I hear over my walkie a fellow co-worker asking if we knew there was a lobster in the computer media section. I start looking around for her, thinking she’s looking at my lobster. After a minute I realized there were TWO lobsters in the store. I get on my walkie and let people know I have a lobster too! Pretty soon we have a big crowd of Borders employees gathered around, laughing at the absurdity of the lobster.

This is Shara’s lobster.

After everyone has a good laugh, our manager on duty (who did not find this amusing) gets on his walkie to inform everyone working to stop what they’re doing and comb the store for..um…lobsters. I’m sure everyone in Borders thought we were nuts because those of us that had actually SEEN the lobsters knew it was for real and started cracking up wherever we were in the store, and those poor souls stuck on register, for example, just thought John had finally lost it.

We thought we had done a thorough search, but judging by the very excitable and laughing men that came from the men’s restroom there was one wayward lobster left.

Now, we have no clue who or why someone would do this. Couldn’t have been our parting gift from our manager – he was locked in his office with our District Manager.

My guess is on the kid that came and got me to look at it in the first place. He and his girlfriend had a plastic bag that was empty and had all kinds of cameras at the ready to capture the moment.

I just would like to know – why lobsters?? Those suckers are expensive!

But it sure made my last half-hour of work fly by!