Shopping For A Skirt

In the wee hours of Friday morning,  my clothing rack collapsed. I really had a lot of clothes hung on the rack, so it probably could not take all the weight. Despite that, I'd still used the rack for 6 years and finally, it gave way and all my clothes were strewn on the floor. So there I was picking up my clothes from the floor at 3.30 a.m. in the morning. 

On Friday afternoon, I went to the newly-opened Emart at Tabuan Jaya ... and it happened that they were clothing racks on sale. RM16.90 per piece and I bought 2 of them. I thought I'd distribute the clothes between the 2 racks ... spread out the weight so that the rack could stand properly. This simple clothing racks weren't normally all that sturdy after all.

On Saturday, I organised my clothes .... there were so many nice clothes that I had outgrown but hadn't gotten rid of. I kept all the nicely tailored ones and the ones that I liked even though I could no longer wear them. Heh. So while going through those clothing that I normally wore, it struck me that I would buy more skirts now that school had started and I needed to wear them daily. 

By the way, I only wore black or navy blue skirts .... they could be pencil or A-line or midi or maxi or knitted or pleated .... whatever they were but I would buy them all in black or navy blue. So I thought of a particular skirt that I had tried on at Parkson .... it was back in March before the MCO. The skirt was black and was slightly flared and had pretty ruffles at the bottom. I liked it when I saw it and even tried it on. Though it fitted me and looked alright on me, I did not buy the skirt at the time ... probably because there was no discount. I made a mental note of the size, in case I wanted to purchase it later in the future. 

Last night, I had thought about this skirt .. and I planned to to Parkson today to see whether the skirt was still available to buy. I distinctly remembered where the skirt was located last time, so I headed straight there. I walked up and down the section but didn't see it.They must have been sold out, I thought. I even reprimanded myself for not buying it when I had the chance to do so. Because it was certainly not very often that I came across something I liked. 

I wandered to the other clothing sections but failed to find any skirt that I liked. Before I left, I went back to check for the final time .... and this time, I somehow managed to find it. The skirt had been moved to a different rack! But at least it was still there! I quickly looked for my size. Yippee they had it though it was the last piece. I WAS buying it no matter what.

I checked with the salesperson and found out that the skirt was on 30% discount. Yay. She said I could buy another regular-priced item at 50% discount. So I left the skirt with her at the counter while I tried to look for a second piece of clothing to buy ... I browsed around but didn't find anything suitable. So I was going to pay for my skirt and leave. So this salesperson was sorting things out with a middle-aged lady ... so I sort of interrupted them to get my skirt since I was quite impatient. 

Then this lady saw my skirt on the counter ... and suddenly she turned to me proposed that I pay her for my skirt. Huh? She quickly explained the situation to me.

Yesterday, she had bought the same skirt in a smaller size.  Because of Covid-19 prevention, the fitting rooms were closed at the moment. So she had bought the skirt without trying it on. When she reached home, she discovered that she couldn't wear the skirt because it was too small. And she did not want to exchange it for a larger size because the skirt did not suit her. She claimed that she looked weird in it. So she was trying to exchange the skirt for a different clothing item only that the salespeople did not know how to go about helping her to do that. 

So the easier thing would be to exchange the skirt for a larger size and sell the skirt to me since I had wanted to buy it anyway. Problem solved. It would be a win-win situation. She would get her money back and I would get my skirt. I immediately agreed and she was really thankful. She kept saying, "Thank You, Lord. Thank You for this miraculous arrangement."

When I thought about it, it was indeed quite miraculous. I mean, for us to be there at the very same time and doing the very same transaction for the very same piece of clothing ... I mean, that didn't happen very often, right? So there must have been some Godly intervention?

I went away feeling happy that I could be of help to her. And at the same time, I did thank God for answering her prayer.