A banana, an orange and a bottle of water...

On my way into work I stopped into Publix to pick up something to eat at work. I grabbed a banana, an orange, a bottle of water, and some chapstick. I get through the checkout, pay with exact change and dash out the door since I’m cutting it close getting to work on time. I get out to my car and am in desperate need of my chap stick so I dig through my bag. I dig and dig and dig…and it’s NOT THERE! And of course I’ve parked all the way in the very last row in the parking lot, so I sprint as fast as I can back into the store, go up to the register I was rung up at and let them know that my chapstick wasn’t in my bag. The bag boy insisted he put it in my bag, in fact he remembers that he put it in the same bag as the candy. Uh…I didn’t BUY candy! Fine…I’m in a hurry, so I make a B-line to the beauty isle to grab another chapstick, pay for it and get to work. This time I didn’t have exact change, so I hand the checker a $20 bill. She hands me my change as the bagger admits that he must have put it in another person’s bag, because he remembers putting it in with candy…oops. Whatever, I’m late, out $3 and already in a huff, so I just leave. I get out to my car, which is still on the last row, and put my change in my wallet…there is only $7 there! I handed her a twenty…I should have $17!!! So, back into the store I go. I head up to the register, which by now I’m sure they are sick to death of me…and I stand there until she is finished with her current customer. I point out that I gave her a twenty and that she gave me incorrect change. She looks at me and says matter-of-factly “You gave me a ten.” I push back… “I gave you a Twenty!” So I go grab my favorite cashier and explain the situation. She tells me they’ll have to count down the drawer…at this point I have now paid $16 for one tube of chapstick, and I am running late, but for $10 you better believe I’ll wait! She opens the register and there it is. My crisp, clean twenty dollar bill on top of the rest of the ten dollar bills. I get my change back and then they also refund my money for the first tube I purchased. PHEW! I walk out of the store and hurry to my car since I am now 15 minutes late and I pick up my first bag with the fruit and water in it and what do you know falls out? That’s right…my original tube of chapstick.

I have some apologies to make tomorrow…