UBMe #2 (”Some Kind of Stupid”), And My Latest Haul (I <3 CVS)
There are a number of reasons why I haven’t blogged lately. You could consider all of them to be lame excuses 
I have a lot to talk about, so I have no more excuses to not blog. Expect my next “entry” to be split up into a couple of parts.
(Yeah, right.)
No quick-hitters tonight…let’s get right into it.
- Presenting UBMe #2, aka “Some Kind of Stupid.”
You’re heading out from your parents’ home with your two sisters, your mom, your aunt, and your now-three-year-old nephew (yeah, he’s visiting again). Needing two cars, you send your oldest sister out first, with the nephew and your aunt. As you get ready to head out, you notice a brand spankin’ new Bimmer parked on the edge of a curb, right in front of your driveway! The moron parked his car in such a way that 75% of the driveway was blocked off!
WTF???
Half an hour later, after loading up both cars, you notice that the idiot is still there! Worse, some other jackass double-parked his car on the road as well! Ridiculous!
UBMe! Would you have driven up to the end of the driveway, and honked your horn to holy hell? Would you have tried to drive over the other side of the curb, potentially f**king up your car to holy hell? Would you have rammed his car and cited a drop in your blood sugar level as the cause of your lapse? Or would you do something else?
You instruct your oldest sister to drive up to the car, and honk her horn repeatedly until the ass moved his car. After a minute of non-stop honking, the ass runs out, gets in his car, and drives off. Your sister pulls out of the driveway, and a bit later, you see the motherf**ker come back and block the driveway again!!!!!!!!!!
(Seriously…how freaking stupid do you have to be to do this AGAIN?)
UBMe! What would you do in this situation? Is this a case where murder is justified. Is murder too excessive? How about six torn knee ligaments?
You feel that the best thing to do is to do exactly what your oldest sister did. You instruct your other sister to drive up to the asshole’s car, honk her horn to holy hell, and wait. He comes running out of the house, drives off…and double-parks his car a few feet away! You drive up behind his car, making it clear that you need to pass him. He drives slowly, until he is able to pull off the road, and he decides to stop…right next to a fire hydrant. Out of the rear view mirror, you look to see that he U-turns, and you know exactly where he’s headed. He’s going right back to his parking “spot.”
At this point, would you have gone back to the driveway, pretending to have forgotten something, and honked your horn to holy hell again, forcing the asshole to come back out?
(I would have, had I not thought about doing this right when we hit the freeway.)
But seriously…how freaking stupid do you have to be to illegally park your car THREE TIMES in the SAME PLACE??!?!?!?!?!
This easily tops the psycho woman in the gas station…by a WIDE margin.
- Now, on to a less coma-inducing topic: my latest shopping haul! I bought some Tums, five SoyJoy protein bars (4 for $4 with a $4 ECB + a B2G1 free coupon), some more Beano ($2.99 with a $2.99 ECB + a $1 off coupon), and two bags of Halloween candy (2 for $5, $1 off 2 coupon, $1 ECB). I also got some free after coupon apple juice from Ralphs!
Anyway, back to CVS…the Tums was supposed to be $4.99 with a $2 ECB, but for some reason, it scanned at $5.49. I asked the cashier about this, and she took my item and went to the aisle where the Tums are sold. She came back, told me that the shelf price was $5.49, but she would go correct it (based on the ad price). At that point, I told her that I would accept the $5.49 price, as long as the $2 ECB printed out.
To my bewilderment, the clerk wouldn’t take no for an answer! She said that I deserved the ad price, and finished scanning all my items. After handing her my coupons + ECBs, my total was $0.52. Reaching for a buck in my wallet, I was shocked to hear the cashier tell me “Just give me two pennies.”
(I had to run over to my sister to ask her for two cents, as I didn’t have a single coin on me.)
After handing the cashier the two pennies, she handed me my receipt + newly printed ECBs, and we noticed that the $2 ECB never printed out. She took my receipt, flagged down the manager again, and explained the situation.
(At this point, the transaction was taking over ten minutes, and I didn’t really want the $2 any more ;p).
The manager told the woman to do an override for $2, but as she attempted to do that, the computer rejected the override. You see, since my total was $0.52, the system wouldn’t let her do an override for more than that amount, as the system does not allow negative totals. The manager offered to refund me $0.52, explaining that that was all he could do.
At that point, I was more than happy to tell the manager that the $2 ECB that didn’t print was no big deal. I thanked him and the cashier, apologized to both of them for taking up so much of their time (they were EXTREMELY helpful throughout the situation), and left. Oh well; it’s not often that I could say I spent two measly cents at any store.
I had more to talk about, but I had been moving loads of stuff into my room for the past two hours (long story), and I’m really tired. Until next time!