The great baby shoe heist of 2006 continues... apparently, some members of the board have involved the local police department and they are all gung ho on pressing charges. A bit of a mob mentality going on. Apparently, anything over $500 (total) is felony territory. I am really torn about if I am going to call with my info. On the one hand, yes, it's a crime, yes, she stole from me. On the other hand, my personal loss was small, and she is a mom with 2 little ones and I'd hate to see her have to serve jail time for what I still want to think was unintentional fraud. Maybe I am kidding myself. The Dude says that the "overdraft" charges were probably made out in a check for a flat screen tv or something. Anyway, no more co-ops for me.
To vent on a totally different subject... I went to the grocery store today, thinking that I could make a quick run, use my coupons get the items on my short list and be out of there in 20 -30 min. to go pick up Dude. HAHAHAHAHA No. Why? Because I got in line behind the Sr Citizens that take FOR.EV.ER to check out. They were the kind of couple that give all old people a bad name. The kind of people that think that no one else has anything better to do than to stand in line behind them with a crying hungry baby at the grocery store. The kind of people that make the cashier ring them through in two seperate orders so they can use 2 coupons. The kind of people who didn't get the right items for the coupons that they have and INSIST that the cashier is the one who is wrong. The wife actually ran back through the store to swap items, while the rest of us all waited in line -Grr! I was doing the full on heavy sigh, weight shifting, finger tapping, evil glare routine and they seemed totally oblivious. I seriously thought about hitting them with my cart that contained mostly frozen, perishible, and screaming items.
I fear that my parents are going to turn into this couple any day now. My mom has started receiving a magazine called "Where to Retire" - which is nothing but a pictoral list of warm weather locales where old people like to live. I never knew there was such a thing.
April 06, 2006
Cops & Mommies & Old people that I hate
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I hear you. My own parents, who are technically seniors now, refuse to go to the Hy-Vee on Tuesdays, because that's "Old People Day". The lines, they say, are always too long, and the parking lot is a deathtrap. Not worth the 5% discount or whatever it is.
Did they then try to write a check? That's always painful.
God Bless the new self-check lanes at Cub. The old people won't use them.
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