The Life Of A LittlBUGer

So my wife is in a panic last night as she’s behind on the general household chores and grocery shopping (as usual) and we’re having guests over tonight, so things need to get done.  She doesn’t have the time as she takes forever to do things and takes even longer with the 3 kids we happen to have.

So to help her out even more than I’m already doing, I decide to do some shopping for her.  She says we need just 4 things at Costco.  I say fine, that’s not bad, just write me a list and I’ll go.  So she does and I go and all seems fine.  I get there and find 3 of the things on the list easily, after some serious walking around as the store is huge.  Then I’m a bit frustrated as I can’t find the damn paper towels after I’ve been around the store 3 times.  They just happen to be far in a corner, a corner easily missed, behind a lot of stuff… who would have thought.

So after about 40 minutes of shopping which should have taken 10 I get to the checkout.  After waiting my turn, I put my 4 lonely items on the checkout belt and begin to pull my check card (which can do debits or credits) to pay.  After the nice $80 price tag rings up (for 4 items!) I slide my card and then… but wait a minute, there’s no option to choose a credit instead of debit.  So I cancel it, try again, and still find there’s no way to do a credit instead of a debit.  So I ask the cashier how to do so, she says you can’t do credit unless it’s American Express, though a debit should work just fine.  I say I don’t have American Express and I don’t know my PIN as I never do debit.  I then realize I also don’t have any checks (as I rarely do anyway).  She says, well, we can hold the items for you until you get back.  I say I don’t have time for that I’m in a hurry and can’t go all the way home and then back.  She says, “Ummm…. well….”  “Alright then, cya I guess,” I say as I leave…

…  Wait… what???  Hold on a minute here… you’re telling me a huge national multi-million (maybe billion) dollar foodstuff and other goodies store such as this does NOT take any credit cards other than American Express?!  Seriously?!  All that I ask is, why Costco, why?  It seems to be the dumbest business decision, especially for a business that large, anyone could make.  All I’m saying is, I want a piece of your sweet American Express deal as you MUST be getting a damn sweet deal with them to be able to do that.

Anyway, I call my wife as I’m leaving the store, empty handed, explaining the situation.  She says, “Well yea, didn’t I tell you that already?” 

Finally, someone out there has expressed my pain in such a way that I never could.  And the story is called: Why I’ll Never Make Digg Popular

Not only does it express my feelings about Digg.com (even though I still like it), it expresses a bit about my feelings posting ON MY OWN BLOG!  So that’s why there’s few articles here, but I just don’t give a rat’s ass.

Enjoy your day!

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