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| - My girlfriend and I had a Tuesday off and it was beautiful so we tried this place. We got a couple pumpkins and they suggested that we pay for them and then put them in my car so they didn't accidentally get scooped up while we were getting apples. We agreed. Then, I'm wheeling this red wagon about 50 feet to where my car is parked and 25 feet into it, Vern (one of the owners) scolds me like a 14 year old kid and tells me "ya gotta leave the wagons here and drive your car up to load them...we can't be leaving wagons all over the place." I was so thrown off guard by this codger's rudeness that I didn't say anything back other than, "ok, all right." I walk the 20 more feet to my car. Start it up. Drive it 20 feet back to my wagon. Load up my pumpkins, drive it back 20 feet where it was parked before. During this, I pass the sign that says as you enter the parking lot, "please return wagons." This seems to suggest that wheeling your wagon to the cart is encouraged as long as you return it. Obviously we planned to return this wagon as we were going to pluck apples. We did pluck apples, but we certainly didn't take a wagon for fear that the wagon nazi would come and scold us a second time.
In summary, the place is great. Everything is pretty much as good as could be expected from an apple orchard, but to have an employee, the owner scold me for something that I didn't do anything wrong was enough to make me a) never go back there again and b) tell everyone I know that I was treated like a "naughty teenager" when I was doing exactly what the sign suggested. Great orchard, pathetic owners.
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