The good thing about bangs is that they look cute; the bad thing is that while you sleep they tickle your face and are quite troublesome. This is easily remedied by two bobby pins...if you have them.
This past Monday night Terri and I were up in Salt Lake and at bedtime she discovered that she was bobby pin-less. Not a big deal, nothing a quick trip to Smith's Marketplace could not fix. The only problem was that, as you may know by now, I have a nasty habit of forgetting my wallet. $1.38 was all that the self checkout kiosk requested. Terri was a good sport and ran out to the car to raid the ashtray while I stayed there avoiding the annoyed looks of the people waiting in line. When Terri returned with only 93 cents we weighed our options.
First we discussed how probably nobody would notice if their pack of pin shad was missing two bobby pins, but quickly decided not to use the five finger discount. For some reason driving all the way back to the hotel (three blocks???) seemed quite unappealing, and so we were left with one final option; spend the next hour walking up and down every aisle and all around the parking lot looking for loose change. At first we were mostly joking, but when I spotted that first dime under the Doritos display at the end of the greeting card aisle something changed (no pun attended). We were starting to become discouraged 21 cents later and we were running out of our scavengers drive when we found the quarter that made our bobby pin dreams a reality.
This past Monday night Terri and I were up in Salt Lake and at bedtime she discovered that she was bobby pin-less. Not a big deal, nothing a quick trip to Smith's Marketplace could not fix. The only problem was that, as you may know by now, I have a nasty habit of forgetting my wallet. $1.38 was all that the self checkout kiosk requested. Terri was a good sport and ran out to the car to raid the ashtray while I stayed there avoiding the annoyed looks of the people waiting in line. When Terri returned with only 93 cents we weighed our options.
First we discussed how probably nobody would notice if their pack of pin shad was missing two bobby pins, but quickly decided not to use the five finger discount. For some reason driving all the way back to the hotel (three blocks???) seemed quite unappealing, and so we were left with one final option; spend the next hour walking up and down every aisle and all around the parking lot looking for loose change. At first we were mostly joking, but when I spotted that first dime under the Doritos display at the end of the greeting card aisle something changed (no pun attended). We were starting to become discouraged 21 cents later and we were running out of our scavengers drive when we found the quarter that made our bobby pin dreams a reality.
5 comments:
I'm really impressed you guys were able to find that much loose change. And seriously, Sam, what's your problem with remembering your wallet? Do you have a weird underlying fear of being mugged? Maybe you should switch to a fanny pack and then it would be more obvious if you forgot it :)
Amazing!
A story like that could only come from one place: Sam and Terri.
Where there is a will there is a way.
One hour....and your wallet was three blocks away? Hahahahaha! Love it!
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