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Oops… I did buy two!!
Date Added: January 29th, 2008
As a grandmother, I love spending time with my kids and grand-kids. One day I was shopping with my daughter and 3 year old grand-daughter. My plan was to just spend some quality time with my daughter and take her birthday shopping. Well, as parents we know how the best laid plans go….her babysitter situation fell through. So there we were shopping at Bed, Bath and Beyond. Our hopes were of getting her some sheets, a mattress heating pad and some other accessories for her bedroom. You know how easy it is to get distracted in that store… well she was preoccupied with this chopping gadget. I was eager to make our purchases and told her, “Sure I’ll get you one of those.” We continued on picking up all her new stuff for her bedroom, and realized her oldest daughter would be out of basketball soon. We had to rush and pay for our stuff. Now, at this point the 3 year old has had enough of shopping and was starting to do the checkout whine. You know the one… whine for candy, whine for in the cart, whine for outof the cart. As the cashier is ringing us up, my heart starts to do the buyers remorse at how much we spent. Walking out to the car I check out the receipt. There is no way I spent that much. Whew… I see one problem. They rang me up for two of those chopping doo hickeys. I let my daughter load her car with the goodies and sent her on her way, as I go back in to rectify the situation. I saunter up to the counter and tell the nice young man that my receipt is wrong. I didn’t buy two of the choppers. He calmly replies, ” Yes, you did ma’am.” I repeat, “No I didn’t. What would I need two of those for?” Well, with his eyes rolling, the young man took one off of my bill. I am feeling a little better. Until….. My daughter gets home and unpacks the goods. She calls to tell me that, yes we did buy two of the choppers. In our haste we both had put one in the cart! Now I have to go back this weekend (with my tail between my legs) and repay for that darn chopper! Or try and take one back… I don’t know what to do!! What a chicken pucker situation this is!! -Andie, Paw Paw, MI.