By chance....I save $

What luck to have caught it in time.

Was shopping at a clothes store, far, far away from home. Don't get out there too often. Only interested in a handful of stores in that mall in which I care to shop. So, basically, gotta shop carefully cos returns or exchanges would be such the hassle or, at the very least, delayed for months.

Mr. P had finished paying for 6 items for the both of us. As we're j-u-u-st about to step out of the store, I spot a jacket I want him to try on. As he's doing this, I'm twiddling my thumbs as he stares at himself in the mirror, turning this way and that.

I spot the receipt sitting on top of our new purchases in the bag. With nothing better to do, I study it. And then I spot something - we were charged for 7 items instead of 6.

And to think we were about to step out the door and be on our way home. If I hadn't given into my impulse to examine the sales receipt, we would've been thoroughly upset when we discovered our credit card was overcharged $48+tax for something not included in the bag.

Mr. P had handled the transaction at the cashier. He's not as careful a shopper as I happen to be when it comes to having purchases rung up. This comes from his lesser experience and his trusting nature. However, people make mistakes and that's what I try to avoid seeing happening. Even at the grocers, I try to empty my contents onto the conveyer belt as quickly as I can so I can monitor them ringing up each item. Do you do this?

Anyways, just happy to have averted one headache.

Another item of mundanity from Peachey. =)

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