then titi came to play

As you may recall my immaturity sometimes gets the best of me at work when it comes to the names of the clothes.  Today I unpacked this gem from a shipment and laughed and laughed.  When I showed it to Jenny she nonchalantly goes, "Yeah, titi, so what?"

She pronounced it 'tee-tee' and said it was a nickname to call your Aunt when you're a kid in certain Spanish cultures.  This was confirmed by Anjali, making the name slightly less hilarious.  Still, it's given me a new name to call Jenny.

When we first started working together I would constantly hear Jenny saying, "mira" this and "mira" that.  It drove me nuts because once I noticed it with Jenny I noticed that almost every spanish customer we had would say "mira" all the time.  I finally heard Jenny say it to Laura one day and stopped them to ask what it meant.  Apparently the urgency in my voice, combined with the innocuousness of the words meaning (look), just made them laugh and laugh at me.  From then on Jenny has been Mira to me.

And now, from today forward, she's Mira Titi.

It's better than Poupee.

gets me every time

If you've never worked in retail you might not realize that every article of clothing has a name and that we as sales people usually have to learn the names of all of the items.  We've just started getting our new fall/winter merchandise in so I am beginning to familiarize myself with the new items and the new names.

I'm sorry, I still crack up every time I get to Poupee on my list.  I haven't seen it enough to not be shocked each time and re-read it thinking surely my eyes deceive me.  But there it is, staring me straight in the face, poupee.

Apparently "poupee" means "doll" in French which is actually a good description of the item, a pair of very structured black dress shorts.  I'd just say it's maybe a little lost in translation.