Exhausting Weekend, My Latest Haul, and Possibly The Best (Worst?) Customer Service-Related Story EVAR
Yeah, yeah, yeah…as usual, I am not going to blog about what I said I was going to. Deal with it 
No quick-hitters today; let’s just get to my weekend.
- To call this past weekend an “exhausting”one is quite the understatement. We cleaned most of the house on Saturday. I manned the kitchen, while my sister handled the living room.
(Tangent: The Magic Eraser is the greatest thing ever. Magic Eraser + water + elbow grease, and no grease, dirt, or grime stands a chance! If only the Eraser wasn’t such a mess to use as it wears out.)
After toiling for about two hours, we decided to reward ourselves in about the best way possible: sushi and gelato ice cream! We went to a sushi bar that my sister really likes, and ordered four different rolls: an “Arigato” roll (fried shrimp, soft shell crab, wrapped in various sashimi), a “Firecracker” roll (spicy tuna and spicy scallops), a Spider roll (soft shell crab), and a “Super Philadelphia” roll (salmon, cream cheese, avocado, and asparagus, wrapped in salmon sashimi; Philadelphia rolls generally use cream cheese and smoked salmon, not raw salmon).
Awesome stuff. ‘Nuff said.
After that, we went to get some Gelato. I got a scoop of white chocolate raspberry, and a scoop of strawberry cheesecake (OMG that was awesome!), while my sister ordered a “sampler” of four scoops of ice cream.
We think we deserved it.
- Also on Saturday, we swung by CVS (what else is new?) to pick up a few more deals.
(Yeah, I’m totally addicted.)
I got more toothpaste, more mouthwash, more dish washing liquid, and yeah, yet another box of tampons. I also got (don’t laugh!) four boxes of Beano.
Now, you might be wondering: WTF would I be buying Beano? Well, other than the obvious possibility (:P), I’m getting paid $9 to take this stuff off their hands: $2.99 per, with $2.99 in Extra Care Bucks per item, a $1 coupon for one, and an $8 MIR for buying four. And yes, I’ll be going back some time this week to buy another box, since a $1 coupon showed up in my Sunday paper.
- So back to the exhausting weekend…the entire day was spent running more errands. We had to go to a laundromat today to wash our comforters, and that took a good two hours. That place was packed, and we had to wait about 20 minutes just to get usage of a washer!
After doing our laundry, we went to the grocery store, planning on making some chicken and rice. We bought all the stuff we needed, and then I noticed that it was already 6:30, and the chicken hadn’t even been defrosted yet! That’s when I decided to stop by Sam Woo BBQ and pick up some BBQ pork. Good stuff!
- On the way home from doing all our errands, my sister stopped by the nearby Shell to fuel up. I felt like having a cup of coffee, so I went into the mini-mart.
Big mistake.
I walked in, quickly got my coffee, added my creamer, and headed to the cashier. That’s when I saw what might be the most ridiculous customer-cashier exchange ever. A woman and her young child were at the register, and the woman started going ape-shit on the cashier. Apparently she bought a few items, and the cashier bagged them one at a time. For some reason, this seemingly innocuous act riled up the woman, to the point where she started pointing her finger at the guy, screaming “I’M…NOT…DONE…YET…PUT…IT…ALL…BACK!”
(WTF? And yeah, she paused like that between words.)
She screamed some more, saying “PUT…IT…BACK…I’M…NOT…DONE…YET…GEEZ!”, and then continued to shop around for more crap.
(Tangent: Who actually “shops” around a mini-mart?)
I stood by the register for about thirty whine-filled seconds, and then decided that she wasn’t going to be done shopping any time soon. I went up to the register and got ready to pay for it, and as I did so, I could hear the woman utter “WHAT THE…???” I thought to myself, “Look…I’m not going to wait for you and your kid to finish shopping. Finish your shopping, THEN check out!”
I would have handed the guy my money and walked out of the store, if not for the fact that he overcharged me for my coffee. I pointed out this fact, handed him the correct amount, and high-tailed it out of there. Before I made it to the exit, though, I could hear the woman yelling at the guy again. Her kid needed the bathroom, and rather than politely asking for the bathroom key, the woman screamed “MY…KID…NEEDS…THE…BATHROOM!”
We pulled out of the gas station, drove around a bit, and drove past the station again a few minutes later, and the woman was still there!
As I told my sister, where do you have to be in your sad, pathetic life, to go ape-shit on a mini-mart cashier like that?
I’d like to see anybody top this story. Until next time!