So Dee and I had haircuts scheduled in Poulsbo today, which meant the kids and I were going to stop in at the Evil Empire to do a little Christmas clearance shopping. Dee was so bummed out to miss our outing since she had to work (ha ha ha ha, not really). We met up with Carolyn and her foster kids and got some major shopping done. All the Christmas items were 75% off, which meant there were great deals. Problem was that some of the items didn’t ring up at the sale price and I had some dumb-a$$ middle age male checker with attitude.
At this point in the shopping trip, Levi was crying…let me back up a minute. When we left the haircuts all of the boys got a lollipop and Levi was still eating his when we went into Walmart. He was bugging Carlos and Trey and got a warning about not doing it again, then proceeded to bug them more and I took his lollipop away. He was screaming and sobbing in the store, but I didn’t give in (we don’t reward tantrums) but I did tell him that if he pulled it together and didn’t pester his brothers for the rest of the trip that I would buy another lollipop. He was great (yeah!) for the whole trip, I reached down at the checkout to grab a ring pop and he saw me do that and felt confident that he had earned his treat and no longer needed to behave. WRONG, the minute I put the ring pop in the cart he blew it and started bugging Trey again, the exact same way he did before. I took the ring pop, put it back on the shelf and he was lost in a sobbing tantrum yet again.
Needless to say, I was flustered and wanted to just be done so when Christmas items weren’t ringing up at the clearance price, and I brought it to the checkers attention he said “guess they aren’t on sale” Dude, for real? I know my sales and ALL the holiday stuff was 75%, so sheets that said “Holiday Traditions” should ring up not $18, but $4.5o a set. I was ticked, both at Levi and at the checker’s brain dead state so I said forget it and didn’t get the items.
Levi pulled it together finally and we got a sandwich at Subway and I looked over my receipt…he’s charged me for one of the items I didn’t even get. Lame, now I had to take the crew back to customer service and get my money back. They were awesome, thank God, and I also asked them about the other holiday stuff and they said to bring it to them and they would ring it up at the discount. WHEW, what a trip!