March 15, 2003
Free stuff
After work today, I went to MEC to get some stuff for my bike.
First, I tried to pick up some new shoes but the only reasonably priced shoes they had were way too narrow. I have like webbed feet, very wide.
So I asked the sales dude to give me some brake and shifter cable housing, a couple meters each. I grabbed a bunch of metal cable ends and he said I could have them for free as I was buying the cable housing. Cool, saved two or three bucks right there. The cable housing was supposed to be $6.00 a meter but he accidentally attached the wrong tag, so the shifter cable housing would only be $3.00 a meter.
At the checkout, the girl rings up all the stuff I bought and it came to $16.59. After I leave the store, I think to myself "That seems awefully cheap!" so I check the receipt and the cable housing isn't even on there! Score! Four meters at $6.00 a meter would have been $24.00 plus the free cable ends, total savings; about $30.00. She double charged on my shifter cables, so my net savings was only about $25.00. Still, not bad.
Then on my way home, I popped into Wendy's to get some dinner. There was a line-up and the guy in front of me orders, then the cashier says something to him and he gets upset and leaves. Weird. So I go up and order a double classic meal, biggie sized, to go. The cashier tells me their Interac isn't working but no worries, I have cash. So I see the guy put a couple burgers in a bag and then he puts another one in and I'm thinking that must be someone elses order. But then he looks at me and says "Your lucky day!" and hands me the bag. Score! I guess they had the extra burgers from the aborted Interac orders so they just dumped them on me. So I had abortions for dinner. Ha.
Anyway, it just seemed weird to get all that free stuff all at once at the end of the day, nice way to start the weekend. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go lie down for a few days while I try to digest about 50 pounds of mad-cow infested dogmeat.
Posted by Fungii at March 15, 2003 10:14 AM |