I have no idea who Elissa is, but I do know that my LYS, Elissa's Creative Warehouse in Needham, MA, has a great selection of yarn, lots of books, nice salespeople, and OK, they never seem to have current issues of Vogue Knitting or Interweave, but compared to the place I just visited yesterday, that is a very minor quibble.
True, both are located in a sort of industrial park, but this Jupiter, FL LYS has the odd concept of organizing yarns by color, making it a little hard to find them by fiber content or brand. I could get used to that (although their selection didn't excite me), but the attitude! I mean, listen to this monologue:
"This one customer, she's a regular but seasonal-- you know, a snowbird--she's the type that sits in her car in the parking lot, waiting for us to open...so what I usually do is, I get in early, get things organized, and a few minutes of ten, I open the door. Well, she comes in, and she says to me, 'Your clock is wrong.'" (Commiserating chuckles from the yarn cronies.) "So I said, 'Well, that's the clock we go by here.' And she was fine--no further trouble. But she's just the type, if you let her push you around...."
I have to admit, that customer doesn't sound like a prize. But can you imagine trying to go to the BANK on your way to work, and trying to open the door at 9, and ten minutes later, they open it and say, "Well, we go by our OWN time here. We're on CHASE MANHATTAN time here! GFY!" Or the supermarket--"We're on PUBLIX time here!"
Elissa, I love you. And WEBS, I love you too: sometimes it's easiest to just order yarn online.
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