After a riveting game night and some alcohol on Saturday which lasted into 2AM Sunday morning, Holly and I woke at just after 7AM. The plan was to go to Church for the 10AM service; we thought that would give us plenty of time. We ended up leaving the house at 8 and getting some Dunkin’ Donuts. As we were nearing Peterborough, I farted and thought I crapped my pants so we stopped at the new CVS so I could use the bathroom. Thankfully it was a false alarm! PHEW!

Needless to say, we didn’t end up making it to Manchester for the 10AM service. Holly wasn’t interested in waiting for the 11:30 service, so we proceeded to a Christmas Tree Shop and Babies R Us. Holly had to do some shopping for a coworker’s baby shower and we wanted to poke around at the Christmas Tree Shop. Boy am I glad I did! I found an INCREDIBLY sweet tin Pig for $1. It is basically a small tin bucket, which sits in a wire frame that looks like a pig. Holly named her Penelope. If I get really ambitious I may take a photo of her so she can strut her pig stuff.

After that, we drove around Nashua for awhile dumpster diving. I wasn’t really feeling it to begin with, and we didn’t find a thing and got bored of it quickly. Then, driving along Main Street in Nashua, we approached FunWorld. As you can see from their stellar website, it was a “THRILLING” place. Holly and I got our photo sketched in a photo booth, played a string on their CapCom bowling lanes, and proceeded to level two. Several racing games were here, along with some fighting and shooting games.

On the third floor, they had 2 DDR machines, 4 pinball machines, and some band type games. We tried playing the Monopoly pinball machine, but that had a bad screen which is never any fun. We proceeded to play DDR, which was an awesome time (even though Holly tuckered out long before I! ), and I played the Austin Powers pinball machine. The left flipper was COMPLETELY useless as it wasn’t on the arm properly, but pointed a bit downward. Unfortunately I didn’t notice before I donated my two tokens to FunWorld! We then went downstairs to play some racing games. We tried one and found out they weren’t liked together and we couldn’t race against each other. Hmmm. We switched to another that had speakers in the seat which were WAY TOO LOUD. My steering wheel was only working intermittently, and with that we decided we had had enough of FunWorld. We proceeded to leave, and on the way out we noticed a Clucking Chicken Egg Laying Machine. We put a token in it, and with a cackling speaker’s series of chicken cluck sounds, we received an egg. We got a MUCH bigger prize than we ever thought possible from such a game.

After we left FunWorld, we went to Bob’s Discount Furniture. As soon as we entered, we were greeted by a salesperson named Jack who found it necessary to introduce himself, shake our hands, and ask our names. Talk about uncomfortable! We proceeded around the store looking at sofas, love seats, recliners, etc. Jack the salesman was never far behind. Every now and then, he would barrel into our investigation of a given piece of furniture and tell us this or that about it. Finally, Holly stated while we were in “The Pit” that we were just looking and that we weren’t there to buy anything. He said okay, gave us his business card, and stated that he would appreciate if we would ask for him when we were ready to buy. We thought that would get him to leave us alone, but to our surprise it didn’t! We proceeded to the sleepy area where the beds were, and he followed us. He received a page over the intercom and TOLD us that he had to take his page but he would be RIGHT back. Unfortunately for us, there was a phone right around the corner!

We finally decided to exit after looking at bedroom sets. Ruthless Jack found it entirely necessary to follow us out of the store. He followed us down the stairs, along the fish pond in the center of the store, and toward the entrance. He stopped us, shook my hand again, and said “We make our money on commission. Don’t forget to ask for me next time you come in, my wife would really appreciate it!” He chuckled and wished us well. I couldn’t BELIEVE IT!! What salesperson in America other than Jack of Bob’s Discount Furniture says that!?