TESCO!!!
Yes I had me my very own supermarket tantrum this morning!!
Remember this little guy?? Well I do a great impression... especially at the Tesco checkouts at 9.30am when I've had less coffee than I'd like and I have a whole lot to do and very little time to do it in.
One of Jake's football buddies is having a birthday party tomorrow, I asked his mother for an idea on what to get for his birthday... he likes "wrestling" apparently... this does not help me much as I know far more about Barbie than I do wrestling, however I fear that 7 year old boys aren't that keen on Barbie so WWE it shall have to be.
Soooooooooo I need to go somewhere "safe" to shop for this as I'm slightly out of my depth here as Jake's not a big wrestling fan either so its not like he makes me watch it all the time and I know the names of the stars etc soooooo....somewhere safe that I am comfortable in and somewhere that I know the sales assistants will be helpful and friendly and smiling...smiling is very important, there is a distinct lack of coffee-ness in my blood this morning it being 9am and I have only been up a couple of hours which is only about 4/5 cups usually. This particular morning has been a whirlwind of activity and so the morning coffee count currently stood at only 2.
I have this nagging feeling that this could be disastrous and I know myself well... it was.
In I head to Tesco armed with my lil trolley cos let's face it - there is no way I am leaving here with just a wrestling toy, no way in hell so there is little point in sporting a fetching blue basket for my trip around the store.
I find the appropriate aisle... yes, the shoe aisle (of course! I'm a shoe whore, what can I say?) but I am distracted by the pretty pink bargain coats for their Royal Highnesses, the Princesses.. Heather & Angelina! ok so thats 1 trolley and 2 coats so far, Oooh... boys clothes, Jake needs jeans...
1 trolley, 2 pretty pink bargain coats, 1 pair of funky blue jeans and 3 t-shirts for a 7 year old later I find myself amongst the DVD's!!!! I KNOW I'm rubbish but I impulse buy... its fun!! LOL so tonight we're watching "The Notebook" as I missed it on the TV on Sunday night (in favour of Nicolas Cage on the other channel - can't blame a girl for that decision) and it was at the knock down price of £4!! I also purchased another DVD for my niece for Xmas so I shall refrain from naming it incase she's reading.
ok..here we go... in my trolley I now have...
2 pretty pink bargain coats, 1 pair of funky blue jeans and 3 t-shirts for a 7 year old, 2 fantastic DVD movies and a glas salt and pepper pot (impulse I tell ya!!!) annnnnnd some wrapping paper, card etc but no present for the birthday party...
I sigh and head back to the toys... wrestling... wrestling...hmmmm... aha! I find them. ok... I head back to the household and look for something pretty and pink to put stuff in cos I really dont have enough of those kinds of things..shit I am!!
I look at my watch (which is currently in the form of a clock on my mobile phone cos I keep forgetting to put my actual watch on) and realise as its 10.15am I better get a wriggle on. Back to the toys...via a different aisle...heh... Oooh its a bargain aisle and lookee what I see!!! WWE toys!!
£4.94 for a little doll this screams "YAY!" to me so I pick it up and add it to the trolley and head for the checkout giggling to myself at my fabulous shopping skills, if I didn't shop on an impulse tangent I would never have found this doll. I am truly marvellous!
I load up the checkout, the lady starts to scan...she picks up the doll annnnnnd...
"I can't sell you this, its not on the store list. Sorry."
Excuse me? I stare blankly at her and this is when the lack of coffee starts to show. She waits for me to say "ok." and I say nothing. She shifts nervously, puts it to one side and says sorry again. This is when my brain finally kicks into gear, it took awhile, I'm 3 cups of coffee behind - gimme a break!
"Say that again please... what?" say I leaning forward to listen because I KNOW she didn't say that she couldn't sell it to me.
"I'm sorry, its not on the store list, I can't sell it to you,"
"You can't sell it to me?... why not? ... what list? ... eh?" I spit out as I go into meltdown. I need this stupid doll all of a sudden and not just any WWE doll. I want THIS one and I'm having it so she better make this good.
"I can't sell it to you."
"Is it broken? Is it reserved? Has it been recalled? Is it full of crack?" I ask and she shakes her head "Well, its on your shelf and there's a price, so you can sell it to me"
"I'm sorry..." she starts and I go postal. "MANAGER. NOW."
So across comes the till supervisor and she gives me the same tale, calm I am (not)as she takes me across to where the WWE dolls are - £20 for a set of 5, I inform her that I do not want this, I want the little doll she has in her hand and I am having the little doll in her hand for if she cannot find it on her system then this is not my problem. I see the shelf with 8 other dolls all the same and the little price label that has the computer code on it. It is NOT my problem her computer is shite.
and I finish with "Are we in agreement?" and she nods but is sticking to her guns that she cannot sell me this doll.
I hear those words again... "NEXT!" yell I, as loud as I can in the store. Funnily enough people began to look at me, I am not disturbed by this.
"I'm sorry I don't understand" she says.
"I said, 'Next' love, who's next? allow me to make this very clear.... I am not leaving without this stupid doll. I should probably just take the doll anyway because if its not on your computer then you have no record of it and therefore it might as well be mine for free!! But because I'm so honest I want to give you money for it so... now I want to see the manager, not 'a' manager, I want 'THE' manager, now go and get him because I have to pick up my daughters from nursery in half an hour and I will be leaving this store, with that doll before then."
"I can get you a manager" she says, think she was a bit stunned.
"Then hurry up and do so and as a favour to you, I shall stand here and tell everyone who comes to this aisle NOT to buy anything incase they cant get it through the till cos all the codes are messed up. ok?"
and she scuttled off and lo and behold she was able to put it through on a sundries number!!! and I got my doll!! YAY ME.
However, with all the hubub I forgot to go back to the shoe aisle. Bugger.
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