Hitchcock Madrona

I have never been disappointed with her scarves and jewelry. One of a kind, too, you won’t see it all over, on anyone else.

Most fabulous boutique ever! Love it! Love everything- get all my gifts here, especially the ones for myself....custom work is fab- Love love love

This evening my family and I were strolling the Madrona neighborhood and stopped into Hitchcock after grabbing some ice cream at Molly's. Before entering we asked the sales woman if we could enter with food. However, when my daughter's come dripped on the floor we were rudely thrown out of the store by a male salesperson. My daughter (9 y/o) left crying and confused. Especially after he told us that as parents we should be carrying rags to clean up after our children. We're not certain why we were treated this way -- one can only guess. If you're a gay family, or shopping with children, go elsewhere. There are plenty of handmade jewelry boutique's in Seattle.

I was in Hitchcock Madrona at the same time as the "Ice Cream" family and let me tell you, there are definitely two sides to that story. I was the other client who had this gracious boutique staying open well past closing, only I was buying something. The family did ask if their children's ice cream was okay as they were welcomed kindly by the staff. Really? Who is going to say "NO", even if you'd prefer otherwise. Soon after, I noticed the children were often left unattended and free to roam the boutique, touching and playing (like kids do). I'm sure at this point the staff was sweating a bit. So after about 5-10 minutes of this, the inevitable happened...the ice cream melted and started dripping all over the floor. Big surprise, but only to the parents, apparently. "Can we have a rag with water?", one of the parents stated. To which, almost in unison, two of the salespeople said, "Don't worry about it, we'll get it." I think any person with a good sense of judgement would have left then. If this was my boutique, I would have asked them to keep their ice cream outside in the first place, but since it's not, I have to say the staff were at least willing to give them a chance. Oh, and I love that the reviewer tried to make it a gay issue. What did that have to do with anything? When the salesperson suggested they take their ice cream outside, there was no crying and the only confusion the children probably experienced was why this playground looked like a jewelry store, lol! In typical retaliatory form, one mom said to the other, "Don't buy me anything from there...", as they left. My favorite part of this whole scenario was what the salesperson added next, "Maybe mommy needs to carry a rag with water?"...it was soo true and what anyone would have wanted to say. These customers didn't like boundaries, clearly, but they certainly got their just dessert! Kudos Hitchcock Madrona.