Well, congrats out to me for blogging 2 days in a row! Ha~don't count on this being a regular occurrence...
So many of you expressed your annoyances with Walmart over the weekend and so I decided to completely avoid that whole scenario. On my way home from work this afternoon, I made the daily call to Brad to check in and ask what he had for lunch. Now I am not trying to be an overbearing nosey wife, I am merely trying to meet his dietary needs for dinner-truthfully he just doesn't like to eat chicken if he has had it for lunch which really annoys me because all I really cook quickly on the fly is chicken. So, guess what...Chick-Fil-A was on the lunch menu which meant I HAD to come up with something else~Thankfully Brad mentioned he wanted crab legs. Ugh...no matter how great that actually sounded to me it meant I had to go to Sam's. Ok, Ok, I gave in and thought...4:30 go to Sam's...home by 5...be at the gym by 5:15-5:20ish...ok, that would work.
UNTIL...dun...dun...dun...I am quickly filling up my cart at Sam's with pork tenderloin, steak, bread, everything one needs in bulk, and I hear this...
"Attention Sam's Members. We have currently lost our phone service and can only accept cash or check payment. No debit or credit cards will be processed." UGH...I never carry the checkbook anymore...it stays in the drawer and comes out only on Sunday morning for the contribution. So, I put all of my groceries back and head to the freezer section to get my crab legs. Great deal by the way...2 lbs Russian crab legs for only $10.88!!! Superbly delicious...thankfully, I had the $20 cash from Saturday that Brad's dad didn't let me spend since he bought my lunch and movie ticket! Whew! I'm safe there. I checked out and went on my merry way.
I thought, well, I'm right here, let me run into Walmart and grab a few things and be done with all this...I quickly grab a cart and rush around grabbing groceries again and actually make it to the deli and order my SaraLee Honey Roasted Turkey sliced very thin and then I hear it...
"Attention Walmart Customers!" OH NO- You've got to be kidding! "We are currently only able to take cash and check. Our phone lines are down and we cannot process debit or credit transactions. I am sorry for the inconvienence." I just couldn't believe it...so I told the deli man to scratch that order-I would have to come back another day. I put everything back on the shelf and decided just to get the salad that I knew I had to have for dinner, paid thru self-check-out and got out of there as fast as I could!
As annoyed as I was, it helped me get a better workout than I might have otherwise and our dinner sure was good. I highly recommend the Sam's crab legs if anyone likes to eat them. Super deal compared to any seafood restaurant and they only take 4 minutes in boiling water! Might be a little difficult with kids, but I will babysit if you want a romantic, quite dinner at home one night!! :)
Now, no good meal would be complete without ice cream, so Brad and I are going to now top it all off with our favorite, BlueBell Triple Chocolate! He'll be in heaven eating that and watching Monday Night Football! Hope y'all have a good night!
P.S. On a good note, we had a Lunch-And-Learn with the OralB rep today and we each got free electric toothbrushes. Mine didn't work (or so we thought) so she gave me another one but it was different. Come to find out, I messed with it and got it charging so now both are gearing up to clean my teeth after my ice cream finale! I will try them both out and let you know which one I think you all should get~as your person online blogging dental hygienist, I vow to bring you the latest and greatest in dental health news and products! You know I want you all cavity-free!
Monday, September 26, 2005
All I Wanted Was...
Posted by MereMoore at 7:16 PM
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So sorry Meredith! I never have cash or the checkbook either.
About the lunch and learn, I may possibly be the only person who would love to know more about dental health. every day is dental health day at our house. I went to UTHSC@SA to the dental hygiene school. I accidentally "failed" the final when I used a subgingival curette in the wrong fashion... poor bob. I was kicked out to redo the semester and then I got pregnant. So, I am 1/2 semester short. Maybe in my next life. It was so fun though. What can I say, I freeze on any and all testing situations, in this case, poor bob.
Wow meredith! That is crazy. Our Walmart lost power last time I was in there. The cash registers still worked, but they had to manually type in each number on the bar code. That was nice.
I had ice cream last night and thought of you!
Way to go on scoring two electric toothbrushes!
TMK-I had NO idea that you were in hygiene school!! That is awesome-who hasn't used a curette in the wrong fashion?? You are not the only person who has asked me about dental health...I guess I will have to start coming up with some dental blogging!
Don't you hate things like that! I am so sorry that happened to you! Sounds like something that would happen to me! But you can be sure you weren't the only one and those people were probably saying some ugly things, unlike you! By the way, I shopped in the dark because a transformer had blown and the whole shopping center was with out power. They did, however, have a few cash registers going. And I enjoy reading your blogs,with so much to say you should blog more often. Hee Hee
Crab legs...really? I love them but it has never crossed my mind to cook them myself. You just boil them??? That's it?
Kevin is really big into writing checks for groceries -- it is supposed to help us not spend as much money as I do with a credit card, so in your Walmart situation, I would have been able to breeze through the line (or at least as fast as Walmart ever lets you breeze through anything!). I am the annoying one in the line that writes a check and gets asked for every sort of identification you can imagine and therefore hold us the lines)!
Crazy! On Saturday night at the movies, they made a line announcement that they were only accepting cash. WIERD. WEll, that got me thinking...what if there were to be more electronic problemos and I got stuck in the movie theatre because the doors would electronically lock and I would freak out thanks to Meredith and her sisters locking me in Laura's closet circa 1985...I mean what if????? Claustrophobia can be tricky!!
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