Clearance Aisle Chicken

I am the clearance aisle chicken queen. You know the game. You are in a store that has a big clearance sale and there are aisles and aisles of disorganized clearance items. If you are patient enough, you can find shirts for less than $10.00 that are not too out of date.

Inevitably someone else will start at the opposite end of the rack working toward you instead of coming behind you. There is going to be a meeting at some point in the racks. I am always determined to win the chicken meeting. This involves careful positioning and posturing. I avoid all eye contact. Eye contact results in the need to be polite. Eye contact would make me want to surrender. I speed up my search not skipping any articles of clothing no matter how hideous. If you are grazing, you are going to feel it is polite to step out of the way. Plus if you are going fast, the other person feels that it will not take you long to move past them and will let you pass.

Saturday, I won four games of clearance aisle chicken. I only scored three shirts. However the shirts are from Macy's (which used to mean something but now is turning into another JC Penney's). I challenge anyone to beat me at a game of clearance aisle chicken!


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