I'm sure I'm just a little too self-conscious, but, it's going to be a long time before I return to that H-E-B.
Maybe I could don a wig and shades and dye my kids' hair color, because I really like that particular store; it's new, and clean.
2 nights ago I took the boys shopping. We ate a healthy mac-n-cheese and chicken strip dinner at the H-E-B deli and then spent an hour meandering through the isles, taking our time choosing cereal, squeezing the fruit, etc. The boys were remarkably well mannered and didn’t beg for candy or toys. All was going so smoothly!
I'm sure I'm just a little too self-conscious, but, it's going to be a long time before I return to that H-E-B.
Maybe I could don a wig and shades and dye my kids' hair color, because I really like that particular store; it's new, and clean.
2 nights ago I took the boys shopping. We ate a healthy mac-n-cheese and chicken strip dinner at the H-E-B deli and then spent an hour meandering through the isles, taking our time choosing cereal, squeezing the fruit, etc. The boys were remarkably well mannered and didn’t beg for candy or toys. All was going so smoothly!
Then, we went to check-out. My grand total was only $47.65, but the debit card was declined. Declined? That can’t be! Try again; the clerk said they sometimes have trouble with these readers. Declined! Try it as credit instead of debit, sometimes that will work. Declined – code D6.
What do I do? I’ve brought no other means to pay. No credit card, no check book, nothing.
All I could say was, “Well, it is what it is,” and abandon my cart.
The boys were oblivious and didn’t even notice that I hadn’t left the store with a cart or loaded the van with groceries.
All the way home: “Mom, can I have a popsicle when we get home?”
“No, son, we had to abandon our cart.”
“Mom, what about the cheese, can I have a slice of cheese?”
“No, son, we had to abandon the cheese when we abandoned our cart.”
“Mom, didn’t you even get the cereal?”
“No, not even cereal. Everything. Abandoned.”
Chuck had made a deposit and there should have been plenty of money. What happened? Did we blow through $1700 in 18 hours? How?
I call Chuck; “Well, I just had to abandon my cart at the H-E-B!”
“How can that be?”
“I don’t know, are you sure you deposited the money into the right account?”
“Well, I have the receipt somewhere.”
“Somewhere???”
“Hmmm. You know, it’s funny, the clerk told me to hang on to that receipt because without it we’d be screwed.”
“And you didn’t hang on to it???”
“Well, I know it’s here somewhere, but I’m not going to walk around clutching it all day!”
“Chuck! Until we’re independently wealthy, CLUTCH THE RECEIPT!!!!”
It turns out that the bank did make an error, and we did have our deposit restored along with 4 NSF charges that occurred due to the mistake.
But the store clerk doesn’t know that. All he knows is that I’m that woman with two kids who D6-ed and abandoned her cart full of perishables last week!