Since I
really don’t see that there is such a thing as Year Of The Parrot, I have decided that a few
of us at Wave Shoppe will simply create it. My best guess is that we will start
out by re-introducing the parrot chimes in the downtown showroom. I have to
stop here for a moment and tell you a little more about those parrot wind
chimes. You see once upon a time we had 4 or 5 of them hung throughout the
store, each one had a colorful 12” parrot on a perch that had 6 chimes hanging
underneath it. So what’s not to love
about that you say? Let me tell you that when you are trapped in a small 1000
square foot showroom and you spend all day hearing people bumping into those
chimes and dealing with peoples kids threatening to pull them down, its
sometimes takes all you can muster to keep your sanity. And then there are the
countless times you bump into them yourself.
So a ways back I slapped a price tag
on every one of them and told people that if they made one of them chime, they
had to buy it. In a matter of weeks I sold every one of them. Now people come
into the store and inquire about the demise of the parrots and are requesting
that I re-introduce them into the store, oh the humanity.
So that brings us to the next
task at hand, how do we raise the bar per se and I am thinking that we will
group them with all of the Hawaiian shirts with parrots that we have in the
store. I believe that right now we have 5 to choose from, there are our most
recent additions, the orange Hawaiian shirt with parrots, the blue Hawaiian shirt with parrots and the crème Hawaiian shirt with parrots.
As I am writing this blog post I am thinking what a wonderfull addition these chimes would make at a target range.
Then we have the classic black Hawaiian shirt with parrots as well as the classic Hawaiian jungle bird shirt manufactured by Wave
Shoppe. I also anticipate dropping a few more new shirts with parrots before
summer and possibly bringing back a design we retired a few years ago. So there
you have it, 2012 will officially be the year of the parrot.
As our living parrot Coco would say... Squawk, Squawk
