incredulous.....

ok, so.....on my way home i stopped at the big lots...to find mailable giftboxes.....i have baby gifts for the trifecta clan....and nothing suitable for sending these tributes to far-flung locales.....and when i was checking out, the sales girl gasped, and looked at me seriously, and whispered...these boxes (10 for $3.00) are ringing up at 30 cents.....don't you want to go back and get a few more at that price?.......no, i really only needed three boxes.....i have no place to store 20 0r 30 boxes.....and this woman looked at me like i had two heads.....that i would decline to save $2.70 on any number of box-bundles.....i had an even more astounding encounter with a service-type employee earlier int he afternoon...i stopped at the kroger on my way out of h-burg...and on a whim ordered a half-pound of chicken salad, knowing that my eldest loves this stuff.....and the counter-fellow selected the right container, but scooped up far too much for a half-pound order.....but refused to acknowledge that he had done so...and kept trying to force the lid down...he ended up slipping the entire oozing container into a ziplock.......just too funny......