Yeah, I can't say that anything went wrong today, most of the day was actually pretty good; parts of it were...just weird.
1. Allie's lunchroom called to say that she needs to bring a dollar to school tomorrow to pay the lunch lady back. They said that she ate breakfast in the cafeteria, and didn't have any money in her account. BUT she also said that theystop serving breakfast at 8:00 and I personally dropped Allie off at 8:04 at the doors to her classroom. I walked her to class the first two days, but since her classroom door is literally 5 steps away from the doors at which I dropped her off, she thought it was "crazy" that moms come to the class with their kids. I have full confidence that she
a)did exactly as she said she did, which was walk straight in to her classroom and stay there until lunch (I saw her standing in front of classroom about to go in when the outside doors closed.)
b)did not eat breakfast at school before 8am, since she was not in that location at that time.
It's not about the dollar, but identity theft at only 5 years old??? lol
2. Okay, not so weird, but the new jeans I bought at Old Navy on Saturday ($12 jean sale!!) still had the dumb square of magnetic anti-theft thing in it (the one that says "cut out before wearing) Yeah, so I beeped as I walked into all the stores today. FUN I couldn't exactly see anyone happily handing over a pair of scissors at the customer service desk so that I could use them on something inside my jeans...
3. I bought a DVD at our local "everything" store. It was Labyrinth and I couldn't resist this time. I got it home, thinking I would listen to it while I made dinner, and magically, the case was empty! LOL I did see that the side was slightly opened, but the rest of the wrap was intact and the sticker was at the top, so I figured it was just torn from boxes, shipping, stocking shelves, whatever. When I went back to the store to exchange it later in the afternoon, the clerk said that they had one stolen last night, but recovered everything, but that this must have been the one (WHAT???!!!)
4. Leaving the store from the DVD exchange, I saw that the man who had been in front of me in line, was parked next to me. He was just getting into his truck (it's Texas, everyone has a truck), so I told Allie it would be fine to get in her door quickly before he left. But, I buckled Aidan into his car seat and the man didn't leave. He got back out and set his bag of items that he had just purchased on top of the big display bags of salt (I don't know what the salt is for...water softeners maybe??) Anyway, he set the bag down on the big bags of salt and got into his truck and drove away! ?!!? So Alex and I exchanged dumbfounded expressions and laughed and wondered what on earth he was doing. I didn't think it would be too bad for Alex to check it out, so he went and looked... I figured he must have bought cigarettes for an underage person or something...nope. It was hair dye, chewing gum, and something else that a kid didn't remember, either because he didn't know what it was, or because he was too hung up on the gum. He asked if he could have the gum...of course I said no. So, we drove home and called the police to report strange and silly, but suspicious behavior. The officers showed up not long after my call to take a report...and then determined that the bag was probably gone now...yeah, that's why I told them where it was when I called, so they could go there and stake it out...um oh well.
5. How many times have I put something into the oven? I can't even begin to count. How many times have I dropped something that is supposed to be in there. Never...until now. I don't even know how it happened, but Aidan's birthday cupcakes were going in, and nope, somehow they ended up upside down on the door of the oven. So, I found myself trying to wipe up batter from a hot oven door before closing it to cook the remaining cupcakes. No injuries, but it's a fun little activity I don't recommend.
6. Yep, it was today that I would attract the wacky furniture store owner. When I got to the store (still looking for taller barstools) a car was leaving, but as I started to walk in, the man pulled back into his parking spot, and came in to the store with me. He said he was about the "go somewhere" (I know lame answer...it was lunchtime, he could have said lunch...) but he decided to come in and help me before he took off. So, leaving his Mercedes parked out in front, he proceeded to show me all the barstools he had. The first ones were fine, the next 2 awful, the last ones he showed me were an interesting little group. He said that "a lady wanted to mix and match" so he had these three that were not all the same, but if I wanted them, he could give me the group for $400...a really great deal because they are some really high quality stools. I looked in the back at the boxed up set of the first ones that I had seen, but when I went back out front and started looking at the "mixmatch set" again, he told me some other story about how this lady only needed 3 of this set of 4 of the "really high quality stainless steel ones" and I don't even remember the story of the other two. He'd give me a really good price on the 3 of them, $300! ...what??!! Did that price just go down $100 dollars in less than 5 minutes? And, since I needed 4, he would throw in the oak one in the back (which also didn't match) for free! So, I explained that I needed to go to lunch, but that I would think about it. No need to mention that what I was thinking was what a crazy he was...
So, I wouldn't say I existed in the Twilight Zone today, but some of those things just made me wonder and puzzle and laugh and wonder some more...so I thought I'd share.
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