Okay Internet, here is your question of the day…You go into a large toy retailer and proceed to fill your cart with an absurd amount of items for the 9 neices and nephews on your Christmas list. You also buy a few (note:sarcasm) items for your own two children. The cart is now wobbly with the weight of your consumerism.

You head to the checkout, hoping you haven’t gone too far over budget. The girl behind the counter asks you if you found everything you were looking for. You roll your eyes because either she is programmed to ask this or clearly has a serious vision problem. She scans everything you put on the little conveyor belt and you graciously lift to her the things that don’t fit on the belt so she can scan them and put them back in the cart.

 She tells you it is $ridiculous.37 and you say, “Actually that’s not as bad as I thought.” You smile politely and take your cart out to your car.

As you load the items in your car, you are still thinking that it shouldn’t have been $ridiculous.37 it should have been $ludicrous.78. You get into the car and plot your plan of attack on the next retail store.

 You then glance at your receipt from the large toy retailer in curiousity.

And there it isn’t.

The largest and most expensive item you purchased, which you personally lifted up out of the cart for the sales girl to scan is not on your receipt. It is the reason why you were pleasantly surprised at your less than ludicrous total.

 So Internet what do you do? Do turn your car around, go back to the store, get the very large item out of your car, load it in to the cart, take it in to the store and ask them to charge you for it?

Thoughts anyone?

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