http://thewvsr.com/the-greatest-playground-ever/ Ridiculous adventures in suburbia. Wed, 23 May 2012 12:26:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://thewvsr.com/the-greatest-playground-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-5287 dan d Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:52:24 +0000 http://thewvsr.com/?p=1116#comment-5287 wow great storys been following the murphys mart web page and found this site too as a former customer in highschool and employee i had my share of adventures at murphys both as a teen ager and as a young adult by that time the stores had been changed to ames . growing up i remember the selection of in expensive model railroad supplies offered each winter. the stuff would wear out the wheel sets so each year id by new cars swap the wheel sets out and return the cars for my money or exchange them for some other railroad stuff in therory THE GC MURPHY COMPANY underwrote my model railroad empire for nearly 12 years by keeping me in a good supply of wheels and couplers..... as for working there out of highschool we had a great time the one episode i remember was someone got a little crazzy with a display of the new 2 liter pepsi bottles and took a needle and punctured about 20 some bottles just fizzing on to the floor ....also one night we had a lame 24 hr sale well about midnight it was dead snow was falling fast////.....one of the dating clerk couples headed off to inventory the bean bag chair pile in the upstairs stock room we kept making monkey noises over the pa system and other rude noises also an impromtu volley ball game broke out using the service counter as the net all was good till some one (me) klutzo served the ball a LIITLE TOO HARD andWOOSH took out the light fixtures above the service desk some coat hangers and a roll of duct tape and we engineered it all back together short bulbs we heisted some from the lower stock room (under the bean bag inventory session and left the broken glass on the stock room floor the murphy couple thought they rocked the bubs loose later that night.... wow great storys been following the murphys mart web page and found this site too as a former customer in highschool and employee i had my share of adventures at murphys both as a teen ager and as a young adult by that time the stores had been changed to ames . growing up i remember the selection of in expensive model railroad supplies offered each winter. the stuff would wear out the wheel sets so each year id by new cars swap the wheel sets out and return the cars for my money or exchange them for some other railroad stuff in therory THE GC MURPHY COMPANY underwrote my model railroad empire for nearly 12 years by keeping me in a good supply of wheels and couplers….. as for working there out of highschool we had a great time the one episode i remember was someone got a little crazzy with a display of the new 2 liter pepsi bottles and took a needle and punctured about 20 some bottles just fizzing on to the floor ….also one night we had a lame 24 hr sale well about midnight it was dead snow was falling fast////…..one of the dating clerk couples headed off to inventory the bean bag chair pile in the upstairs stock room we kept making monkey noises over the pa system and other rude noises also an impromtu volley ball game broke out using the service counter as the net all was good till some one (me) klutzo served the ball a LIITLE TOO HARD andWOOSH took out the light fixtures above the service desk some coat hangers and a roll of duct tape and we engineered it all back together short bulbs we heisted some from the lower stock room (under the bean bag inventory session and left the broken glass on the stock room floor the murphy couple thought they rocked the bubs loose later that night….

]]> http://thewvsr.com/the-greatest-playground-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-5282 Kelly from Iowa Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:54:24 +0000 http://thewvsr.com/?p=1116#comment-5282 Me either. :( Me either.

]]> http://thewvsr.com/the-greatest-playground-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-5280 Debra Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:24:49 +0000 http://thewvsr.com/?p=1116#comment-5280 the super secret update link won't work for me...BOOOO the super secret update link won’t work for me…BOOOO

]]> http://thewvsr.com/the-greatest-playground-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-5268 Zippo Hartley Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:18:38 +0000 http://thewvsr.com/?p=1116#comment-5268 What...? What…?

]]> http://thewvsr.com/the-greatest-playground-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-5266 Skippy Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:54:48 +0000 http://thewvsr.com/?p=1116#comment-5266 i will volunteer to do the R. Lee Earmy part from FMJ. just ask bill from wv, i know the whole routine. i will volunteer to do the R. Lee Earmy part from FMJ. just ask bill from wv, i know the whole routine.

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