For the second year my MOMS Club has adopted a needy family from the Salvation Army. We tried to raise funds by devoting an entire Saturday to wrapping books at Borders, but "corporate" decided that it would be best to put the wrapping station in the way BACK of the store...as if people are going to pay for their books up front and then walk ALL the way to the back just to have them wrapped. Needless to say, our intake of funds was minimal. We hit up our members and they came through for us - again!! YES!!
Because of the harsh weather (and snow that NEVER happens up here) we postponed our shopping trip until Monday....HA HA HA!! Mother Nature decided to have our original shopping date be clear and nice, but our alternate day be the day after a HUGE 8" snowstorm hit. HA! Mothers - they're always getting in the way.
Luckily M put chains on his vehicle, and although it's a company vehicle, I commandeered it for the evening. Good thing. ANYWAYS, the family we were buying for called me that morning begging me to bring me at least the grocery items. The Salvation Army requires that 3 days worth of groceries be brought to the family. SOOO, I picked up Nikki at 5pm and off to Winco we went. CRAZY busy. Little over an hour later, we headed off to the family. AGAIN, little did we know that the family lived clear across town! We still had their Christmas gift shopping to complete. UGH.
Delivered the food and decided that heading back to the Mall area would be best. There is a Ross, TJ Maxx, Big Lots, Target and JC Penney's close together. HA HA HA!! Ross, Big Lots and TJ Maxx closed early because of "inclinement" weather. PULLLLEEEZZZZ! We need to shop, people! Off to Target. Bought a few things, but decided to head to WalMart instead (better prices) - there is a new Penney's across the street too.
Started at Penney's and bought 3 comforters and a set of dishes. Get to the register with our 4 items, and I request gift receipts for all items. She rings me up, I hand her some bills and the exact amount of change required - in return should be receiving $4 back. That just confused this poor girl. She finishes the transaction, hands me the receipts and it's then I notice that there are only 2 gift receipts. Now she's flustered. She summonded the manager who is right in front of the registers and when she looks up at the clerk proceeds to mop my shoes TWICE!! YUCK! Have to void entire transaction and rering. UGH. Line forming behind us - not good. While in line we did manage to had out a few MOMS Club business cards, so perhaps something good will come out of this.
She rerings the items, we recieve our receipts and exit. We had noticed that the box of dishes seems to rattle excessively. Nikki decides to check and sure enough, a few broken pieces. BACK into Penney's we go...maybe now the mgr can mop my pants too. The register area is empty (thank goodness) but the poor clerks eyes get very large and a scared look is on her face. We make the return/exchange and we're out the door.
WalMart was uneventful but sucessful - although we did forget to purchase a calander (which was on the family's list).
We laughed and laughed again this year. Apparently shopping for other people bring out the weirdness in us both.
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