Returns

Today was day filled with returns. Brady and I started out after nap time returning months worth of things that we had accumulated that I had failed to return right away. Ugh, I hate returns. First, stop was to the Post Office to ship some books that I sold on Amazon. Then, to Home Depot to return a soil ph kit that wasn’t used. Next door to Target, where I exchanged some training pants covers that melted in the dryer even after following the laundering directions explicitally (will be air drying next time). And finally, at Lowes. I ended up having to return (14) 40 pound bags of top soil to Lowes because of unsettling ingredients (fly ash – found in cement and not exactly organic or safe). Now this was the hardest return to make. I had to plan my parking position near a cart return that had a flat bed that could accommodate 560 pounds of weight. I found one, unloaded the top soil from the FX, strapped Brady to my back, and hauled the thing across the parking lot. (Keep in mind that cart corrals are usually several rows in.) Two men watched me hauling this load with baby on back and no one offered to help. In fact, the strapping young lad at the returns counter saw this and just watched me continue to haul it and say, “I’m guessing there’s nothing wrong with it but you just didn’t need it.” Ugh. While processing said return, one of the guys from the parking lot walked by and had to repeat himself cause I wasn’t paying attention the first time and said, “I hope he appreciates all you do.” I left there feeling empowered, look at what I did with a 25 pound toddler strapped to my back but at the same time offended. I expected more from Texas honestly. You see someone pulling more than 4 times her body weight with a baby on her back and you don’t even bother to help but instead try offend the baby’s daddy – what’s wrong with you? Baby’s daddy is working and I’m getting things done.  After that we went and tried to sell some old video games and consoles.  We didn’t make quite as much as I was originally hoping but I also didn’t let the guy hustle me and made him give me a breakdown of his payout and started pulling things back (how’s that for being an informed consumer/reseller).  I did make enough to buy a 25 pound of diatemaceous earth on the way home and hopefully with that our pest control will be complete for awhile.