No good deed goes unpunished
Today has been quite a day. Visted three food pantries with BC. The first was a 20-minute wait and yielded sausages, canned goods, baked goods and 2 2-liter bottles of diet cola (Best by 5/16/09). The second involved a 45-minute wait in a dark, crowded stifling hallway and yielded more baked goods. The third was already closed for the day, out of stock.
After a brief intermission, BC arrived at my place with the box spring and mattress. We got the old ones to the curb and the new ones in place. The old mattress, because it's a platform bed, was about crotch height on me. This one is crotch plus 3", which is going to take some getting used to, as is the fact that if I bump the mattress with my ass, it slides away---NOT something I could do with the old one! It also displaced a lot of stuff that was sitting peacefully in corners, not bothering anyone until BC came through. Oh well, I probably ought to move it anyway.
Then came the a/c installation. Getting the old one out took more doing than expected---I had completely forgotten that HWSNBN had silicone-caulked the side pieces---we had a devil of a time getting them out! The new a/c doesn't have the flange that held the other one in place, so I was forced to weather-strip it with duct tape.
I ended up compensating BC with $20 and a bottle of root beer. (Root beer to BC as a goodwill gesture is a long-standing tradition.) Because I didn't quite have that on hand in cash, we both detoured over to WinnDixie. I got enough extra cash to compensate the lawn service, aka ang5fam's offspring---thankfully he didn't show up until AFTER I'd had a chance to shower.
With all this financial stuff going on, I checked my bank balance, and was horrified to discover that my good deed had come back and bitten me on the ass---the discount code that was supposed to take $25 off the cost of that $25.41 order, didn't freaking work. I got to call in as an incoming What Trash Queen call to try to straighten it out---they're STILL working on it! All because WTQ is a pack of tightwads who give out codes instead of real gift cards. And it's not like I don't know what I'm doing! That was a perfectly valid code on a perfectly good order---guh, the things I'm driven to do for sales numbers---but at least dealing with it counts against someone else's handle time!
I WILL get it back, one way or another, and I figure by then another $25 will come in handy. Meanwhile, my room is reaching a suitably arctic temp, I have baked goods galore, life is good.
After a brief intermission, BC arrived at my place with the box spring and mattress. We got the old ones to the curb and the new ones in place. The old mattress, because it's a platform bed, was about crotch height on me. This one is crotch plus 3", which is going to take some getting used to, as is the fact that if I bump the mattress with my ass, it slides away---NOT something I could do with the old one! It also displaced a lot of stuff that was sitting peacefully in corners, not bothering anyone until BC came through. Oh well, I probably ought to move it anyway.
Then came the a/c installation. Getting the old one out took more doing than expected---I had completely forgotten that HWSNBN had silicone-caulked the side pieces---we had a devil of a time getting them out! The new a/c doesn't have the flange that held the other one in place, so I was forced to weather-strip it with duct tape.
I ended up compensating BC with $20 and a bottle of root beer. (Root beer to BC as a goodwill gesture is a long-standing tradition.) Because I didn't quite have that on hand in cash, we both detoured over to WinnDixie. I got enough extra cash to compensate the lawn service, aka ang5fam's offspring---thankfully he didn't show up until AFTER I'd had a chance to shower.
With all this financial stuff going on, I checked my bank balance, and was horrified to discover that my good deed had come back and bitten me on the ass---the discount code that was supposed to take $25 off the cost of that $25.41 order, didn't freaking work. I got to call in as an incoming What Trash Queen call to try to straighten it out---they're STILL working on it! All because WTQ is a pack of tightwads who give out codes instead of real gift cards. And it's not like I don't know what I'm doing! That was a perfectly valid code on a perfectly good order---guh, the things I'm driven to do for sales numbers---but at least dealing with it counts against someone else's handle time!
I WILL get it back, one way or another, and I figure by then another $25 will come in handy. Meanwhile, my room is reaching a suitably arctic temp, I have baked goods galore, life is good.