STORE RETURNS RETURNED GIFTS BIG LOTS EMPLOYEES COME TO CHRISTMAS RESCUE OF LAID-OFF WOMAN.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY - With a heavy heart, Julie Meisl loaded the presents she had bought her grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. into a shopping cart and pushed it back into the Big Lots store. Laid off unexpectedly four days earlier, she knew she couldn't afford the little remote-controlled truck, the toy tool set, the sweat suits or even the pajamas pajamas Noun, pl US pyjamas pajamas npl (US) → pijama msg; piyama msg (LAM for her adult daughter. She apologized to clerk Maria Mance because she had removed the price tags, expecting to wrap the gifts for Christmas. No problem, Mance said, she'd take care of it and refund TO REFUND. To pay back by the party who has received it, to the party who has paid it, money which ought not to have been paid. 2. On a deficiency of assets, executors and administrators cum testamento annexo, are entitled to have refunded to them legacies the $100 or so on Meisl's credit card. But the staff not only handled the return with ease, it arranged a return of its own. On Wednesday, two days after she'd returned the items, Big Lots delivered the presents back to Meisl's home. ``We didn't want to think of any kids out there without toys for Christmas,'' store manager Chuck Sears said Friday. Meisl was stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. when Big Lots workers called her at home, having garnered her address and phone number from the sales return form. Ten minutes later, they were at her front door. ``I am just so beside myself that they did this for me,'' Meisl said. ``I was touched even that they took the gifts back without prices - and that they would bring them back to me. I just can't believe they went to that length.'' Back came the remote-controlled dump truck, the Blue's Clues Blue's Clues is a children's show about a dog named Blue. It features live action one on one on paper-cutout animation. The series follows a dog named Blue through her everyday life, providing small children with fun and education. The show airs on both Nick Jr. and Noggin. jacket, the tool set and more. ``They couldn't find the exact pajamas I had bought for my daughter, but they brought me an even nicer pair,'' she said. Meisl had worked as a negotiator with creditors for a debt settlement company for 18 years when she was laid off because of declining business. She'd never lost a job before and was saddened by the reality that she couldn't afford gifts for her children and her five grandchildren. She told Mance of her plight as she was returning the items. A day later, in a Big Lots staff meeting to preview the previous day's sales, Mance told of Meisl's story. ``When they explained why, it was a consensus among the staff,'' Sears said. ``We said, let's go Let's Go may refer to: Television
Bookkeeper Debi Rodriguez pulled some strings and worked some Christmas magic. On Friday, she and Meisl met and hugged. When things turn around for Meisl, she'll be back to shop, and she has a favorite clerk. ``Maria, she's the one who did the whole thing,'' Meisl said. ``She was so sweet and understanding, very compassionate com·pas·sion·ate adj. 1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic. See Synonyms at humane. 2. Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances: . She'd only been working there two weeks, but she pulled it all together. She did the return quickly, and the next thing she's got the whole Big Lots to do this whole thing.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour SAC Sac: see Sac and Fox. SAC - 1. An early system on the Datatron 200 series. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. edition only) Newly laid-off Julie Meisl, right, gets a hug from Big Lots employee Debi Rodriguez after the store let her keep gifts she had returned. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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