Scrupulousity
Yesterday I checked my mail box at the post office. For the umpteenth time I got the previous person's mail. I've chucked that mail back so many times marked "NOT AT THIS ADDRESS!" but the stupid jerk's bank & credit card statements keep getting sent.
Afterwards I went to the newsagent and bought two newspapers and a magazine (some dog magazine with a Great Dane feature in case anybody is curious), and yeah I shelled out $2 extra for the Star Wars pin that is available if you buy a certain newspaper. I can't believe I'm getting suckered into buying a newspaper that I don't even read (it's a Murdoch/Newscorp paper).
Anyway to the point of this whole post. I took the stuff to the counter, fiddled for the right amount, and the girl says $11.45, which was a little more than I expected but I forgot about the $2 pin. So I handed over a $20 note & a 50 cent coin. In a second afterwards I did a quick mental calculation and determined that the total should have been $12.45. So she ended up giving me too much change. For some reason I was annoyed (probably because of the mail) and was thinking "Last week I had to remind you guys to charge me $9.70 instead of $5.70 for the papers and now I have to do your job for you again. Fuck it I 'm just going to pocket the difference."
But no of course, a short while later I kept thinking, I shouldn't have kept the extra $1, but I was carrying a lot of crap & a roast dinner so it was impractical to go back. So today when I went to buy the papers I paid exact change and gave the girl ( a different one) an extra $1 explaining that I'd been given too much change the previous day. You should have seen the look she gave me. It seemed to say something like "WTF??? Are you nuts???"
Afterwards I went to the newsagent and bought two newspapers and a magazine (some dog magazine with a Great Dane feature in case anybody is curious), and yeah I shelled out $2 extra for the Star Wars pin that is available if you buy a certain newspaper. I can't believe I'm getting suckered into buying a newspaper that I don't even read (it's a Murdoch/Newscorp paper).
Anyway to the point of this whole post. I took the stuff to the counter, fiddled for the right amount, and the girl says $11.45, which was a little more than I expected but I forgot about the $2 pin. So I handed over a $20 note & a 50 cent coin. In a second afterwards I did a quick mental calculation and determined that the total should have been $12.45. So she ended up giving me too much change. For some reason I was annoyed (probably because of the mail) and was thinking "Last week I had to remind you guys to charge me $9.70 instead of $5.70 for the papers and now I have to do your job for you again. Fuck it I 'm just going to pocket the difference."
But no of course, a short while later I kept thinking, I shouldn't have kept the extra $1, but I was carrying a lot of crap & a roast dinner so it was impractical to go back. So today when I went to buy the papers I paid exact change and gave the girl ( a different one) an extra $1 explaining that I'd been given too much change the previous day. You should have seen the look she gave me. It seemed to say something like "WTF??? Are you nuts???"
posted by Dr. Kananga at 11:43 PM
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