Oh yes they had a Toys R Us in times Square. We actually went there that year we visited dad. We all had walky talkies with us from his work so we’re using them. A guy comes up and asks where the bathroom is.
To be fair to the guy, the workers also did have walkies, but a different type. Also they were all wearing that vest toys r us use to wear. But I was a kid, and a short one!
It was also Christmas eve. The place was paaaaaaaaacked.
Speaking of Holidays, I remember during the first Thanksgiving Black Friday, we were at the Bayparkway (Brooklyn) Bestbuy. A whole line of people lined up there. We didn’t have a car, so we basically just walked there, like 30 mins away. We got a cheap tv and some budget laptop, forgot how we got it home, but I assume one of our relatives came by and helped us move it home.
My aunts and uncles who lived around there said people would set up tents there the night before lol. Wait in line felt like 1-2 hours, maybe 3 hours, forgot. That was insane, but you kmow… poverty and people want cheap stuff.
Home would’ve been so much sadder without these stuff. Never had laptop before coming the US, new stuff, the novelty… it’s useful to look up a lot of unanswered questions kid-me had. Like space stuff, planets, looking up stuff was magical.
Like this was 2010s btw. Nowadays I think people just do online shopping.
Oh yes they had a Toys R Us in times Square. We actually went there that year we visited dad. We all had walky talkies with us from his work so we’re using them. A guy comes up and asks where the bathroom is.
“No idea?”
“But you work here!”
“No I don’t? I’m a kid?”
“Oh. But the walky talky-”
“Oh, no. Family has them”
He grunted and left lmao.
Clearly, they hired kids as unpaid interns xD
To be fair to the guy, the workers also did have walkies, but a different type. Also they were all wearing that vest toys r us use to wear. But I was a kid, and a short one!
It was also Christmas eve. The place was paaaaaaaaacked.
Speaking of Holidays, I remember during the first Thanksgiving Black Friday, we were at the Bayparkway (Brooklyn) Bestbuy. A whole line of people lined up there. We didn’t have a car, so we basically just walked there, like 30 mins away. We got a cheap tv and some budget laptop, forgot how we got it home, but I assume one of our relatives came by and helped us move it home.
My aunts and uncles who lived around there said people would set up tents there the night before lol. Wait in line felt like 1-2 hours, maybe 3 hours, forgot. That was insane, but you kmow… poverty and people want cheap stuff.
Home would’ve been so much sadder without these stuff. Never had laptop before coming the US, new stuff, the novelty… it’s useful to look up a lot of unanswered questions kid-me had. Like space stuff, planets, looking up stuff was magical.
Like this was 2010s btw. Nowadays I think people just do online shopping.