I feel like crap on a stick today. I skipped my dance class this morning because I am coughing up a lung and got no sleep. Instead of coming home after dropping off Middle C at Preschool, I thought I would run to Big Lots and buy two lawn chairs that I saw were on sale. Baby A was not in a good mood, she was having some really bad gas. I plopped her into the cart, buckled her in and started hunting down the chairs. Once I found them, I struggled to get the two awkwardly packaged chairs into the cart while the "employee of the month" looked on. While trying to get them into the cart I smashed Baby A's little chubby finger between the cart and the chair. She let out a high pitched wail and attempted to bite the offending chair. I tried to calm her with a bag of cookies that I hastily grabbed off the shelf. She quieted down a bit, and I wheeled the cart to the check out line. It was about three people deep. I waited and I waited. Baby A was about halfway through the bag of cookies when the cashier croaked, "Next". I asked if she could possibly scan the chairs without having to pull them out of the cart. She blew a bubble, popped it and said, "Nope". I hoisted the chairs out of the cart, one at a time trying hard not to smack Baby A in the head. The cashier gave the the total, and I started to root around my giant purse. Crap, there was no credit card. Then it dawned on me, I did not put it back in my purse after ordering pizza the night before. Just as I was about to tell the cashier never-mind, Baby A grabbed a handful of cookies and threw them on the floor and screamed, "OUT"! I started apologizing for not having my credit card, when the cashier got on the microphone and bellowed, "Need a Void, Customer can't pay". By then, there were several people in line behind me, obviously annoyed. I could feel my face burn with embarrassment and my antiperspirant start to fail. Then I remembered, as wet gnawed on cookie sailed past my cheek, I still had to pay for the #$%#$%$ cookies. I started pawing through the discarded receipts, crumbs, and wrappers looking for 1.25 in change. It was at that moment, that Baby A began to grunt, crinkle up her little sweet nose, and turn red. The stench that permeated from her diaper was beyond heinous. A woman standing behind me whispered, "Good Lord!" Then out of the depths of my purse I spotted a few more quarters. Done! I high tailed it to the car with my stinky baby, cursing under my breath. I guess I will never get those chairs, there is no way I am going there again. Go suck an egg Monday, I hate you!
3 comments:
So sue me but all I got out of that was dance class...you take a dance class? Where? what kind of dance?
Ok now i'm gonna go back and read it again lol
OY! we need a lunch date soon...maybe a drink to make up for today yikes!
Man if that woman bubbled in front of me I woulda popped it before she had a chance! RUDE!
OMG I am laughing so hard....not AT you of course. At the woman who said, "Good Lord!"
Reminds me of the time I spent forever browsing in busy Costco with a very tiny Zoe wrapped onto my chest (it was my 1st time there so I had no idea what I wanted or needed to get). I get to the check out? No debit card, and they don't take credit! I ad put it in my pocket after getting gas the day before. So. Embarassing.
And I would NOT have had the money for the cookies I never have cash!
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