Year Of The Parrot

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