ONE Butternut Squash Can Be Costly

I went shopping last night and the bill was almost 4 times larger than normal amount. I asked the kid to check the receipt and he gave me a funny look and acted like $172 was a reasonable amount. I knew better but was in no mood to push this issue with this fellow. I paid him and immediately looked at my receipt and realized that there was a charge for a single item that equaled $110.41.

I marched over to the service desk and told them of the error. After looking at the receipt for a few minutes the manager finally figured out that the item must have been the butternut squash. (The squash didn’t have a UPC code on it, maybe that was the problem!)

I wanted the manager to shred the check I wrote, so I could write a check for the proper amount. Instead he issued a refund of $110.41 in cash. (I ended up getting the squash for FREE, and rightly so for all my trouble!) I was rather upset that I would now have to make another trip to the bank to deposit the money back into my account. I suppose the lesson in all this is next time I need to muster up the energy, no matter how tired, to force the clerk to look at the receipt. It would have saved me a lot of trouble. Of course, I would have never gotten a FREE butternut squash either.

On a sad note, I just found out today that my co-worker has breast cancer. I’ve never known anyone close to me with breast cancer and I can’t believe all the doctor’s appointments and tests she has to take. Chemo is another thing she must face and all of her beautiful blonde hair will fall out. She asked me to be on the lookout for a nice head covering to wear when that starts to happen. Does anyone have good ideas of what to wear other than a turban? She might be out of work for a while too. I’m just terribly sad about this.