Stupid Neighbors and Their Stupid Dogs, I <3 My CVS (Even When The Cashiers Yell At Me), and Week Three Fantasy Football Thoughts
Quick hitters:
- The Los Angeles Dodgers’ magic number: ONE.
Start engraving that MVP trophy with Manny’s name on it! Sure, the Dodgers are only 28-21 since his acquisition, but do you think the Dodgers win more than 2-3 of those games without him?
And how great was it to see Rafael Furcal and—to a much lesser extent!—Jeff Kent back on the field?
(Somewhat off topic, but why do newspeople insist on raising one finger any time they say the number “one” with emphasis? I’m looking at you, FSN’s Patrick O’Neal!)
- Subject and From: field of an email I received a few days ago:
Walmart.com bought a Walmart.com Gift Card for you!
From: Walmart.com bought a Walmart.com Gift Card for you!
Spam, right? If I offered you 1:10 odds that this was spam, you’d bet the house on it, right?
Amazingly enough, it was NOT spam! You see, a couple weeks ago, Walmart.com had offered several workout machines for ridiculously low prices. Sure enough, they turned out to be pricing errors, as stated in the “kill mail” email from Walmart that immediately found its way into my trash can.
Good thing Hotmail hadn’t yet emptied my trash when the email containing the GC hit my inbox.
- Current rebate-o-meter: $1,039, but I haven’t yet updated it with over $500 in recent purchases.
- So you might recall that my really cool neighbors recently moved out of their condo. I’ve met two of the three new tenants in that condo; the lone female seems like a nice person, and one of the guys seems to be a grade-A jerk. There’s a third guy there, but I have yet to meet him.
Unfortunately, I have become quite acquainted with the fourth member of that condo: a super-annoying, barks-every-waking-minute dog! Of course, every time the stupid rat dog starts barking, the other dogs near us start barking away as well.
One of the dogs—a serial offender, and one I’ve probably written about before—is now so bad, there have been times where s/he has barked at 3-4AM!!!
Stupid dogs…and their stupid owners.
- Needing to use up some expiring ECBs yesterday, we swung by the Encino CVS. I was hoping to score some more FAECB body wash, deodorant, and some really cheap Propel water. I also needed eye drops, and after picking up all the items above, I went to the checkout counter, where I met my favorite cashier.
After all my coupons and ECBs, my total due was $3.00. As I reached into my wallet to pull out a $20, the cashier started giving me the death stare.
(Oh sh*t…what did I do???)
In her thick accent, she started scolding me! “Three dollars? Usually you hand me a few cents!”
I responded with “It was the darn [Propel] water…too good of a deal!”
She responded “Come on, I know you’ve got a two-dollar-something ECB in that envelope of yours.” Then she almost tossed my change back at me.
As I grabbed my bags, I told her “Does this mean I’m banned from the store now?”
She responded with “You better come back next time and spend a few cents. You’re letting me down!”
I love my CVS.
Better yet, apparently my sister forgot a bag of items, and we didn’t realize this until we got home. Upon realizing this, I instructed her to call the CVS and, to prove that it was her bag of items, I told her to identify what was in it.
She called, and while speaking to a cashier at the front, she could hear another cashier screaming “It’s all my fault! I’m so sorry!!!”
We went back, and as soon as we stepped in, the cashier screamed, “I’m SO SORRY!!! I can’t believe I did that!”
I love my CVS.
- I’m now 1-2 in both of my Fantasy leagues, no thanks in part to the injuries to Donovan McNabb and Brian Westbrook.
In my “crap” (read: Carson f**king Palmer) league, I’m 1-2, thanks to Maurice Jones-Drew. I now face the only winless team in the league, and unfortunately, he’s not 0-3 because he drafted Tom Brady. Worse for me is the fact that Reggie Wayne, Dallas Clark, and Roy Williams are all off next week.
1-3 here I come!
In my other league (read: Donovan McNabb and Brian Westbrook), I got drubbed 97-56, so it’s not like those two would have helped much. I’m now up against a 3-0 team next week.
Fantastic!
Until next time!