LadyFish
Admiral
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- Mar 18, 2003
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A couple of weeks ago I re-did my bathroom. I decided not to put the cheap old mirror back up and get a nicer one. I also wanted to buy new lighting fixtures.<br /><br />Last night Mr. LF and I bought a new mirror at Home Depot. After I got it home I decided I didn't like it so much. So today I thought I'd take it back. I didn't have a receipt but people take things back all the time without a receipt right?<br /><br />Well, I put this big mirror into a cart from the parking lot and walked into the contractors pick up door thinking the return desk would be close by. Dopey me, it was clear on the other end of the store. So I mosey on through the store get to the counter and when I said I didn't have a receipt, she called security. She asked them if they saw a tall blonde coming through the others doors with a big mirror, they said no. Then she called the checkers down there and they also said no.<br /><br />I asked her to scan the bar code and she would find that I bought it last night. She scanned it and it didn't show that it had been sold. By now, my face is turning all shades of red even though I knew I was not guilty of anything and I am sweatin like a farm animal. She was going to make me leave the mirror and keep my $60 as well. By now I am pissed and embarrased. So I asked her if she could look up my routing number on my check or something. Finally she did and discovered I was telling the truth, and refunded my money.<br /><br />Sooooooooo, I mosey on over to the mirror I wanted, the dang cart was too small so I was trying to balance it as best I could while driving the cart and I hit one of their restocking contraptions and cracked the mirror (as if my luck wasn't bad enough already). So I put it back and got another. I felt guilty but dammit, I was not leaving the store without a mirror.<br /><br />I come around the corner headed for the checkout line and 3 security officers grabbed me and asked me to go to the front of the store. They told me they had just received a call about a tall blonde lady with a mirror and no receipt to show for it. So I immediately explained that I already took that mirror back, this was a different one. They said show me the receipt. I told them I didn't have one she gave me cash back. They looked at me like I was a criminal. Which after breaking a mirror and putting back I was. But thats not what they wanted me for.<br /><br />Soooooo, to the front of the store we go. The refund ladies explained to the security guards what had happened, they all got a big chuckle out of it and let me proceed to checkout.<br /><br />I get out in the parking lot, still balancing this huge mirror, open the hatch on the back of the Sequioa with one hand, the other on the mirror, managing to grab the mirror just before it fell over, while I yanked it out of the cart, the cart went sailing down the parking lot and hit a truck that was backing out of a parking space with a bunch of mexicans in it. They jump out screaming to me in Spinglish, I grabbed the cart, put it in its proper place, and got in the truck and hauled butt.<br /><br />When I told my daughter the story she nearly peed her pants laughing at me cause she knows how I hate to take anything back. She also knows what a clutz I am which is why I won't buy brooms or mops or anything else that sticks out of the cart by myself.<br /><br />I was going to try and install the light fixtures by myself but I think after the way the day has gone so far, I'd better wait for Mr. LF. Or maybe not, he locked his keys in his truck today and I had to run to the Ford dealership first thing this morning and have an entry key made. Not sure his luck is any better than mine at the moment.<br /><br />I think its time for a longneck. 
