Friends, sometimes you just can’t win for losing. Some famous person said that, but ain’t it the truth?
Yesterday, Pam and I went to Walmart for an another extension cord. (Yes, I’ve already got 25, but I can’t find em. I put em up in a safe place! I know y’all ain’t ever done that before.)
Well, we found the cord and got two more items. We went to the checkout — and the card reader broke! We watched four different people punch buttons, trade keys, and click stuff! Then when none of that worked, they had to UN-scan each item and send us to another line!
In the other line, we waited and then were checked out and made it to the Wheel of Fortune! That’s what I call that wheel where they put your stuff in them little tee-shirt-looking bags! And if you buy much it cost a fortune!
Finally, we got out and headed to the pickup. For some reason, I had the bags and the receipt — a big ole long slip of paper for just three items! I guess all that scanning and UN-scanning adds up!
Well, as luck would have it, the wind was blowing, and blew the receipt out of my hand!
Pam said, “We need that!”
But, Folks, I don’t save em. I’ve already paid one time, I’m not gonna clutter up the house with all them old papers! But Pam likes to save each and every one! Might want to return stuff, I guess!
I told her let it go, but she was already trying to run it down! She is still pretty fast! She was running and weaving back and forth, looked like a football player!
She almost had it a time or two, but people blowing their horns I guess sorta broke her concentration! Anyway, it wound up under a car! And this guy was sitting in it!
She jumped down and belly crawled under there, then the wind blew it away!
I finally caught up with her and said, “Get in the truck, Woman, somebody’s gonna run over you!”
She was out of breath, but she said, “We might need that receipt!”
After we got home, I got out the bags — and sure enough, one item was missing!
She called the store, and do you know what the first thing they asked her was?
“Do you have your receipt?”
She gave me the Stink Eye!
Now. Did anybody find a Walmart receipt, white, and about yea long, yesterday?
And life goes on, on Thompson Hill.
