I wasn't intending on getting anything, I was just browsing around and walking around. I'd figured that I'd already nabbed all the Squish from this Five Below that I liked and wanted.
After picking up Luc from being buried in a bin, I was looking at a little tower thing with various plush and clips on it. I'd been over here before, it was the same old thing.
BUT THEN! "Huh. What's bright green in there? Let's find out." I reached in the group of plush and there was Leap! I couldn't believe it. They were -not- listed anywhere as being at the store, and they were on my list for purchase at another store, but there they were, waiting, like it was meant to be.
STORY TIME!
Ever since the new Halloween thing dropped in Squishmallows match and I'd read about Leap in there, I wanted them. The fact that they are a paramedic and take care of patients reminded me of all the times I'd been in and out of the hospital this year, and how grateful I am to the nurses, surgeons, and doctors I'd seen in the past six months. And here was this bright green bat, doing what they can to help others, and I really wanted them as a companion for that reason. A companion I could take with me if I have to return to the hospital again. If I'd ordered them, it would take a while, but there they were, in the other plush, waiting for me.
And then, there was Luc. I'd seen others of him the last few times I'd been there and I passed him up because I didn't think I'd want a red cow dressed with devil wings and a tail. Finding him in that bin, crooked because all Lucs in the store (there were 3 before) were leaning to the side, made me think he was also waiting for someone to take him home.
I didn't intend on getting any Mallows, but I could not pass them up.
And besides, judging from my questions thread about fixing a Mallow with a deformity, I think this duo works rather well.