Shopping

I HATE SHOPPING. and if you didn't hear this then I HATE SHOPPING.

I had to go shopping today and have to go tomorrow. It doesn't matter if it's cloths shopping or food shopping I hate to do it. If I could get everything I needed shipped to my house by going on the internet to do it I would. That is the only way I can tolerate any kind of shopping. I guess it's because I can take my time and check out different sites to see where I can get the best price for things.

I needed to get water for the month today so that meant a trip to Auburn and the BJ's up there. I also had a check that I wanted cashed so I thought I'd go to Market Basket to do that. Well I got to Market Basket only to be told that they don't cash the type of check I had. So that meant a trip to Wally world because I knew that for a small fee I could cash it there. I was already planning on cashing 2 other checks I had gotten as rebates for lost money in the washer there so I decided to just bite the bullet and go today. (of course what happens? I get another check today that I have to cash) When I get to Wally World of course there is only one person working at the service desk and a line of 3 people ahead of me. Not only was this poor woman doing returns but she was answering phones and cashing checks plus what ever else needed to be done at the service desk. It was well before noon and the other person who was supposed to be there was at lunch. I feel sorry for the poor person who was waiting for someone at the Site Pick-up desk because even after a supervisor called no one showed up there. I was in line for 30 minutes to do what I had to do and when I was done the woman in line behind me got passed over because some young snot nosed yuppy had to jump the line to try and get out faster than anyone else. As I was leaving I said to the woman working the service desk "By the way, this woman was next in line" and got a dirty look from a few people over that. The woman in line behind me was actually beside me as she needed to hold onto something. She wasn't any spring chicken and to top it all off she was legally blind. Guess everyone thought she was standing there for her health.

I finally ended up at BJ's to shop but before I got there I stopped at McDonald's to get something to eat. I had my friend with me and I think he really wanted to go inside and sit down to eat but I was in a time crunch because I had spent 30 minutes at Wal-Mart waiting on getting waited on. I had told my parapaligic friend who's van I had borrowed that I would only be and hour and a half and it was getting down to the wire with time so I did the drive thru to try and save some time. Well that didn't work to well either. I ended up going inside because they didn't get my order right. It's a good thing I looked at it before I left the parking lot or I may have not had lunch. I was so hungry that in the time it took me to get about a mile and a half down the road through 2 lights I had my burger done. I ended up eating the fries after I got done in BJ's.

So that brings me to BJ's. I had brought back 6 empty 5 gallon jugs. I needed to get 6, 5 gallon jugs full of water. Now if you don't know about BJ's it's a wholesale club like Costco and Sam's club. It's huge. Of course what I needed were on opposite sides of the store. The water is in the back on one side and the artificial sugar I wanted is in the middle on the other side of the store. I had asked when I came in to have someone meet me near the water to put it in the carrige for me and after waiting for 10 minutes and not having anyone show up I asked another customer to help me. He was real nice. I've found that it's easier to ask another customer to help rather than wait for someone to show up to help. So here I go pushing a loaded cart from one side of the store to the other. Now in the front of the store is the candy, nuts and baked goods. All impulse buys and I'm kicking myself now for not getting muffins. Then there's the check out. I got lucky and the supervisor was talking to the check out girl when I got in line and there was no one behind me so she asked the girl if she thought she could move the water jugs and would she mind doing it for me. The girl said she would help and now I'm wondering if maybe I should have given her a tip for helping me. I got the water in then it was off to Oxford

I had one more stop and that was the pharmacy in Oxford. I had a script I had dropped off before going to Wal-Mart and another one that I had called in earlier in the week. So after getting the green dot moneypac to reload my pre-paid credit card and telling the girl I had 2 prescriptions she located one then looked again for the second one not only once but twice in the bin then went to the computer to look me up to make sure I had 2 prescriptions. I guess the computer said that there were 2 filled and waiting for me to pick up so it was back to the bin for the third time where she found the script IN THE FRONT. Then it was time to pay for everything. I wanted to put $333.00 on my credit card so with the fee I gave her $338.00. She acted like a monkey doing math trying to figure out if 1-$100.00 bill, 2-$50.00 bills, 6-$20.00 bills and 8-$1.00 bills added up to $338.00. She added it up twice then asked someone else in the back to add it up as well. This is what not only graduated from high school but also from Pharmacy Tech school and she can't add?

I finally got home and then it was time to get what I had bought into the house. Thank goodness for another resident up here. He's a real sweetheart. I had taken in 2 jugs of water and one bag of groceries and saw him and asked him if he would help bring the rest in. He got the rest of the water in for me and the 2 bags of groceries as well. He even waited while I took what was on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator out to fix the shelf and put the stuff back on it to make sure I got a jug of water on the cooler.

By the way did I mention I HATE SHOPPING?