My Single Mom Life

I'll be happier when they have spent all their gift cards man.
Boys are the worst shoppers ever.
They can never ever decide what they want. They suck at shopping!
Me? I go in, pick out what I want within minutes, pay and am done.
Them? An hour and a half debating between which color light saber to buy.
Then they forgot these ones take batteries so I said gimme the damn gift cards, I'll go back in for batteries.
Went in, went to electronics, grabbed batteries, paid and was out in under 3 minutes.
I have a screaming headache now.
Then Mark says the funniest thing to the bus driver as we were getting off at our stop.
I get off, Sebastian gets off, Mark leans into the bus driver and says, "Help, she's gonna kill us" with the most serious face ever.
The driver looks at me like is he serious? I just started laughing, Mark starts laughing, Sebastian starts freaking out on Mark.
It was funny as hell man...lol
My kids crack me up.

I used the money remaining on my Visa gift card to get a new toaster. It's purty, it matches my new cookware set and my crock pot perfectly.
Black and silver. I love kitchen stuff man. I also dug through the 2 for $11 DVD bin they always have and grabbed Steel Magnolias cuz I love a good cry fest no matter how old that movie is, and The Omen. Heh. I'm gonna make the boys watch that one.
hehe hehehe.

They each just have Toys R Us cards left now. I am not going to that store alone with them on the bus. I am gonna see if sis will take us. It's just too damn far by bus and I have some major long bus rides coming up next month every single week so no, no hour long bus ride to Toys R Us this week. They can chillax with what they already bought.

I had an annoying cashier experience at Wal*mart too. What is it with cashiers these days.
I knew exactly down to the penny how much was left on my Visa gift card and I told the cashier this.
She was new, in training but she knew what she was doing, she typed the amount in and hit the credit card button, it popped up on my little screen pad to sign for it. Then Josie who apparently is a "star cashier" at Wal*mart, stuck her two cents in and told the cashier to delete that.
Then she told her a different way to enter it because the card says the word debit on it. Debit means you must have a pin number. This gift card has no pin number therefore you run it as credit which the cashier did but Josie had to try and be right but she was wrong.
She made the poor cashier try it her way 3 times.
3 fucking times.
I was trying to tell her that it has no pin number, that she was doing it wrong, that the original cashier was right and she kept saying "no no ma'am, it says debit."
It wouldn't go through all 3 times.
I finally said to her to be quiet. Just be quiet Josie. Shh. Zip it.
I told the cashier, "run it as credit like you originally tried to do and it will go through. I've used this card at 4 other stores since I got it, it works as a credit, not debit. Please, just do it the way you were going to do it."
She did and it went through all the while Josie is running her mouth that I'm wrong.
It went through and the cashier turns around and looks at Josie and says the customer was right.
Josie started flapping her mouth again that her till is gonna be messed up etc etc.
She handed my receipt to me and apologized and I walked over to the service desk and told them what happened and said to them, "Look, Josie may be "star cashier" whatever that means, but she was wrong and she wasted my time, the cashiers time and every other person stuck in line behind me and she was teaching the cashier in training the wrong thing which will screw up her till at the end of the day and will waste her time and you'll get complaints from people that the cashier doesn't know how to do her job."
She apologized, said she was going to talk to Josie about it.
I hate crappy customer service and I hate know it all cashiers who are wrong and will argue with you.
I was a cashier for like 17 damn years, I know how to use the cards and obviously so does the cashier who tried to do it right the first time. Grrr, people piss me off man...lol

Came home, my "approval" letter from my attorney was in my mailbox along with some more Christmas cards.
So a good ending to a long day out anyway.
Now I'm gonna chill out, find some food and watch a movie.
Horror or tear jerker? hmmmm...

Later days.