No Eggs

There's this odd woman who comes in.
She's a grandmother age sort of person, with one of those unique personalities and needs.

I see her every now and then, and interact with her at those times because she came to us...what? Two years ago now? Its been a long while. With the request that we save any bird eggs that may appear in our cages.
-As we don't breed in the store, so any eggs we find we get rid of.
But this woman, likes to collect the eggs, dry them, and then donate them to places.

So for the past little while we've been doing just that.
Saving the finch and canary eggs we find in the cages for her.

She came in tonight.
Looking for those eggs.
*shakes head*
Which was a bit weird because I swear she'd just come in like four days ago to get the eggs. Apparently it's been a week or two in reality. (time in the store moves weirdly)
But she was surprised that I didn't have any more eggs for her.
Surprised that the birds had stopped laying the eggs.

*shrugs*
They go through phases.
It just depends on the dynamic of the birds within the cage, and probably their age as well.
Sometimes the birds lay eggs like crazy.
And other times...nothing.

But the woman came in halfway expecting there to be a ton of eggs again.
-As she hadn't come in for a while to get them so we had had a lot of them waiting for her.

Sadly, I was unable to give her any today.

And I continued to disappoint her.
Because she kept wanting things in the store....that we don't sell.
Like our cardboard cut outs of puppy dogs on top of some of our displays. Or the stuffed animals we have in certain areas of the stone to help customers see how product (like clothes/harnesses/collars) go on the dogs/cats.

Dealing with that sort of conversation....
She now kinda strikes me as a hoarder.
Wanting everything in case it can come in handy later on.

Still. At least she's not too difficult to deal with. :)
I'm just sad I didn't have more eggs to give her so her trip to the store would be worth it.

-Sarnic Dirchi

Update: We had an amazing day full of cat adoptions. Enough kitties found a forever home that we were able to once more place just one cat in a cage. ^^ Yay.