To think people queuing for build a bear are Fucking insane

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Sorry if anyone else has mentioned this also I don't know if this is happening anywhere in the country but where I live they're doing a "pay your age for a bear" at build a bear.

People in my town were queueing for FIVE HOURS + with their children just to get a cheap bear. I think they're fucking stupid. I'm totally shocked that so many people were willing to wait that long for a Fucking bear.

AIBU?

We went to Rome in February and when we turned the corner at St Peter’s we saw the most massive queue I’ve ever seen. I almost fell over with laughter as both DC immediately went on strike and said there was no way they were joining that queue. I agreed.

I’d estimate it was about three hours long.

Today our local Build a Bear had a 6 hour queue before they shut it to newcomers. 6 hours. In Livingston. Madness. At least I can understand the queue for St Peter’s even if I weren’t willing to join it.

Madness

But you have to wait 5 hours to get that £3 bear.
Grumpy children, grumpy parents and a bastard bear that will be forgotten in an day.

I live at Intu Braehead 🤯 thank fuck dd and I are away camping in the middle of nowhere on a Scottish island, it would have been gridlock round our way! Oh, and the bears are shite 🤷‍♀️ Unless you buy all the tenner a go tiny outfits they’re just....bears. Dd has a few but grew out of them by the time she was 6. Novelty wore off.

@MaryShelley1818

Nobody in the history of the world has had a perfectly lovely day whilst waiting in a fucking queue for 5 hours with babies. You're not fooling anyone!!

So many people place so little value on their time.

Lots of people (many SAHM in this) have plenty of time, but not much money. It's not really that hard to understand is it?

It's a conspiracy - something to do with the Buildabearg Group...

Thing is, the point of Build A Bear is the ‘experience’ of choosing it, seeing it stuffed, doing the heart thing, naming it etc.

This is totally lost on any child under the age of about two or if you’re getting it to put away for Xmas/birthday. You could just get a teddy bear from anywhere if you’re doing that.

From the BBC. Says it all:

Amanda Bailey, 42, from Mickleover, started queuing outside the Derby shop with her two daughters, aged two and five, at 09:10 and did not get inside until 12:40.

"I thought I would give the queue an hour and then you get sucked in," she said.

"Once inside it took a further two hours to get her bears because of the "stuffing counter queues".

She said although she saved quite a bit on the cost of the £21.50 she bought for both children, she added: "When I look back I will probably think, 'what have I done that for?', especially with what I will end up paying for parking."

mary I just don't get it. You could have had just a lovely day with your friend without standing waiting for a stuffed bear for a baby. Your baby would have been just as chuffed if you had paid full price and did it it 5 mins instead of 5 hours.

I can slightly understand if you are of low income and you can't afford it, but it's a teddy bear. I would actually have posted you one of mine plus an outfit for nothing.

I literally have never been in one of these shops. I have zero idea what these are. Teddy bears one presumes.

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At an outlet where you can get one for £10 any day of the week, there were people taking kids out of school to queue up. So 5/6:7 year olds. 4 hours queue to save £5 at best.

That is nuts.

cana That's fucking appalling behaviour!

@FlyingDandelionSeed

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Lots of people (many SAHM in this) have plenty of time, but not much money. It's not really that hard to understand is it?"

Yep, it is. The time of a SAHM is more valuable than this.

This is the vacuous, mindless adoration of tat. Utter tat.

freddyfasbear braehead was absolutely rammed. The queue was all the way down to marks and spencers before security shut it to newcomers.
wickedgooddoge i saw the video of livingston on fb it looked mental

No object is worth making a DC stand for so long that they faint on the pavement.

Woodenblock you are ignorant and rude.
Yep you are right, I came on here anonymously to ‘pretend’ I had a nice day to a bunch of internet strangers who don’t actually care if I had a nice day, I’m lying about my smiley happy baby, lying about our lovely picnic in the queue, and lying about my friend and I having a lovely day just catching up. I’m clearly deranged.
That makes total sense - the truth is just too boring and doesn’t support your bizarre rant.

mary But you are trying to make it sound like you had the perfect day out. You stood in a queue.

Unless that is a great day out to you normally? I prefer the beach, park, softplay or anything like that then lunch.

Your baby is happy doing anything.

@ItsNachoCheese very happy to be nowhere close, then. Whole area gets gridlocked whenever Braehead has something on. It’s a fantastic place to live and quiet most of the time. I’d have been well pissed off to come home from work to that chaos!

Kids were screaming and there was a fist fight when one dad accused another of trying to push in the queue. It was dangerous so we left and went to Disney Store where shoppers were stripping the shelves of teddies to pacify their disappointed kids. The queue to get served was half an hour and I witnessed one mum pulling another mum's hair to make her let go of the last Mickey toy. We gave up and just went shopping.

The word 'plebs' was created to describe people like these. Just wow.

Nickynack - why is it difficult to understand?
We also have nice days doing other things - we went to the farm on Monday, we’re going to the Baby Sensory room tomorrow.
4.5hrs out of a year of ML is literally nothing.

It’s like the Next sale. I cannot understand why people queue up at the crack of dawn to buy that tat. Do they still get a thrill out of the bargain, even when the time/ convenience cost has been so great?

mary That's fab if your idea of a lovely day out is standing outside a shop.

I really really don't need to save a few pounds that badly. And I like BAB.

A lovely picnic in the queue? To each their own, I guess.

@@MaryShelley1818

I'm glad you had a good day but it's just hard to imagine someone with their picnic spread surrounded by screaming children and sweaty parents, moving their entire picnic inch by inch as the queue goes down. 🤷🏻‍♀️ sounds quite comical

But Nickynack we do ALL if those things every other single day.
It was a few hrs. He loved it, he loves people watching, he couldn’t give a monkeys that he was people watching in a shopping centre and not at the park instead today.
He likes the teddy. It’s just so not remotely a big deal.