Riversled’s post in the forum about shopping sure made me stop and think. The way she kept watching me,I’m sure last weekend one of the people in a large shop thought I was trying to shoplift.I guess it was because I kept glancing around me nervously. The reality was I was trying to buy a Christmas gift for Mick and make sure he didn’t see me.
After shopping for family, we’d spilt up to go shopping for each other’s gifts. Knowing he was somewhere in the shopping complex, I was trying to keep an eye out and not get sprung by him while buying his gift and ruin the Christmas surprise. But I can see how it might have been misconstrued by the shop assistant. I guess they have a lot of problems with shoplifting, at this time of year especially.
The funny thing is when a shop assistant makes a mistake and you tell them, if it’s in the shop’s favor, they look at you mostly like ‘are you nuts?’
Last year after we moved house Mick insisted I have a new desk. Till then I’d had an old second hand one that we’d bought at a sale. Before that it was a door cut to size on top of two old beside cupboards. A brand new desk was a luxury I’d never had before. As well as the desk we bought a set of lockable drawers. The two were to be delivered the next day.
At the time of the sale we were both distracted and not taking much notice. However, after Mick paid and walked outside, we realized instead of adding the drawer price onto the price of the desk with his calculator the salesman had subtracted it. The result was a difference of a couple of hundred dollars.
We’re not that flush with money that such a saving wouldn’t have been helpful. For a brief moment the temptation flickered. One look at each other’s faces and we knew we couldn’t do anything other than go back and correct the mistake and pay the extra.
Hand in hand we went back in. ‘Gee thanks. The boss’d kill me,’ the salesman said, though his workmate looked at us like we were right off our trolley. Perhaps we were by some people’s standards but Mick and I were in complete agreement and in the end that’s all that mattered.
Now, when I sit at my desk I feel glad and not riddled with guilt, which would have been the case, if we’d done anything different. What would you do? Would your spouse agree with that decision? Or would it have caused an argument?
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