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i have never been good with the concept of money and how it all works. that is why i have wife.
i don't shop or really ever buy anything, stores frighten and confuse me. that is why i have wife.
wife keeps my life moving forward. without her i would lay in the fetal position on the closet floor.
recently i was in dire need clean underwear but i don't really understand how the machine that magically produces clean underwear works. again, that is why i have wife.
an impending business trip magnified the underwear situation, i was forced to work the machine or go shopping. on my way to the airport i stopped at tj maxx. the fact i stopped at tj maxx is an indication of how truly desperate i was. not that i believe i am above shopping at such a discount store, but, well, i am. anyway, i purchased fresh, clean, deeply discounted irregular underwear, and continued on to the airport.
wife monitors the checking account via the miracle of the web hourly. she noticed a transaction at tj maxx. odd she thought, knowing my disdain for both shopping and outlet stores. adding to the confusion, the transaction posted after i had left town. compounding the confusion, she had coincidentally shopped the same store two days earlier.
wife concluded that tj maxx was screwing us by running up bogus charges on the checking card used two days earlier. she called tj maxx and requested the manager (tj himself, i suppose). she then tore tj a new one. tj was very apologetic and promised to review by hand all the register tapes for the day to find the error (not a simple task).
in our evening update phone call, wife tells me this crazy story about tj maxx trying to screw us, and how she chewed out the manager and how nobody messes with her. her voice is filled with anger, bravado and confidence. I ask her the amount and realize it was my purchase. sheepishly, i told her about my shopping excursion. a panic stricken wife ended the conversation abruptly, "um, i gotta go. i need to call tj."
Posted by griff at November 26, 2003 01:00 AM