So we drove to GameStop and got there at about 8:58 p.m. I think Derek was very near heart-attack level of excitement and angst at how close we cut it. So we rush inside and watch a 30-minute video with information from some Executive Director dude and a 20-something guy who is apparently able to make a living out of winning team-based Halo tournaments. Who knew? (When I hear about things like that, it totally undermines my "Education is important if you want to have a successful life" speech that I like to give to my students.) They took each of our names down for the big drawing at the end, along with urging us to text "Reach" to some number in order to win a life-sized action figure of one of the characters. (Praise the Lord that I just happened to have given up texting just about a week before!!!!!) The picture below will allow you to see how lucky we could've been with such a wonderful piece of art in our living room. Darn the luck!!
After the 30-minute video was (finally!) over, I thought that they would commence the drawing and name a winner, that we would be able to go home, and that I could find satisfaction in having done my wifely duty of supporting my husband in his love of all things Halo. I was mistaken. Lo and behold, they were going to run the SAME video over TWO MORE TIMES before doing the drawing!!! I just couldn't handle it! So I told Derek that I was going to go to Wal-Mart, located right behind GameStop to do some classroom shopping and that I would be back in time for the drawing. Luckily, he agreed.
I drove over to Wal-Mart and got an AWESOME parking spot, which just started this shopping trip off right! As I was happily pushing my cart along in Wal-Mart, I found a whole stack of clipboards in the sale section for $.50 each!!! Yes, you read that correctly... FIFTY CENTS EACH!!! If you've ever tried to buy clipboards before, you'll know what a steal that is! The great part is that I had been hoping to get some clipboards for my classroom because the students are allowed to move around the room during Writing Workshop, and I wanted them to have something to bare down on. But since the cheapest I had previously found them were $3 each, I knew it wouldn't be possible for me to buy them. But here they were... 14 blue and green plastic clipboards that I could own for a total of $7. I was SO excited!
I went to one of the workers and asked for a price check before lugging them all up to the counter. He reported back to me that they were $3 each. :-( I was so bummed, and I asked him if he could go with me to the aisle to help me find where the $.50 clipboards were located. He walked over there with me and realized that the sign did indeed say that they were on sale and that there were a lot of them sitting together, still in the cardboard packaging. So we strolled up to the counter together, and this amazing young gentleman asked the lady to do a price override so that I could buy them for the sale price!!! HALLELUJAH; I WAS HAPPY!!!!!! (and still am... can you tell??)
In the meantime, a lot of time had now passed, and I wasn't really paying attention to my watch. Suddenly I get a phone call from Derek who frantically tells me that they're doing the Halo game drawing in less than 5 minutes, and you have to be present to win! I could tell he was trying to stay calm, but he was really anxious and getting upset with me that I wasn't there. He asked me why I hadn’t answered my phone the past four times he had called, and all I could do was sheepishly say that I was on the phone with my mom telling her the good news about my clipboards and didn’t realize he had called so many times. But it was going to be okay… I was going to make it!!
So I started speed-walking through Wal-Mart with this rather large cardboard box filled with clipborads toward the entrance where I had the great parking spot. I was NOT going to miss this drawing! While practically running toward the door, a worker stopped me and told me that this entrance was now closed and that I would have to walk all the way to the other side to exit out of the other door! OH MY GOSH!!! Okay, okay, I can do this. I will NOT let my husband down on this one. I continue to speed-walk to the other side of the store (I am starting to understand why mothers go up to the Mall of Georgia in the mornings with their strollers and speed-shop together to work out), quickly show the lady my receipt for my awesome clipboard deal, and literally start running to my car once outside, which of course is located in my really great parking spot at the OTHER end of the lot! But gosh darnit, I am going to make it! I just have to!!!
I throw the clipboards in the back of the car and pray that none of my precious purchases break. I jump into my car and peel out, while finding my inner racecar driver. I speed through the parking lot (I hope no policeman is reading this!) and almost crash into the parking spot in front of GameStop. I literally sprint to the door, open it, and jump inside just in time to hear the manager exclaim, "Is she here?" Considering that there had only been like 3 girls in the entire store, I knew I had won! Oh my gosh I had won! Holy cow, I had won for my husband, and I made it back in time, and I'm about to ALSO win the Wife-of-the-Year award!!! I AM SOOOOO AWESOME!!!
Then I start to wonder... where is Derek, and why is he not rushing up to throw me up in his arms and start singing "For she's a jolly good wifey, for she's a jolly good wifey, for she's a jolly good wiiiiiifeeeeeeey, that nobody can deny!...?? Why is nobody looking at me?? I'M THE WINNER!!! And then I hear some 40-year old man say with complete glee, "yea, she's right out in the car... let me go get her!!!" What?? This didn’t make sense! Who is this man saying that SHE is out in the car! And then it hits me… OH NO!!! I didn’t win! Some other chick was about to take MY Wife-of-the-Year Award, and there was nothing I could do about it!!
I sulk over to Derek, feeling like a dog with its tail between its legs because it just got caught peeing on the new rug. He was calm, because I didn’t actually win, but I could tell he was perturbed that I hadn’t been back for the drawing with ten minutes to spare. He admitted to me that he would’ve been really upset if it had been my name that had been called and that I had not been there. So not only did I not win, I found out that I had kind of upset my dear hubby for not being there to not win. Boy, did I feel sheeeeepish.
So I learned my lesson to keep track of the time a little better, and all’s well that ends well, I guess. Derek definitely forgave me. Though technically I didn’t lose anything for him, so he says that there’s not really anything to forgive… so it’s somehow like a faux forgiveness, but I’ll still take it. I sure do love my dear husband, and it turned out to be a semi-entertaining Friday night!!
I drove over to Wal-Mart and got an AWESOME parking spot, which just started this shopping trip off right! As I was happily pushing my cart along in Wal-Mart, I found a whole stack of clipboards in the sale section for $.50 each!!! Yes, you read that correctly... FIFTY CENTS EACH!!! If you've ever tried to buy clipboards before, you'll know what a steal that is! The great part is that I had been hoping to get some clipboards for my classroom because the students are allowed to move around the room during Writing Workshop, and I wanted them to have something to bare down on. But since the cheapest I had previously found them were $3 each, I knew it wouldn't be possible for me to buy them. But here they were... 14 blue and green plastic clipboards that I could own for a total of $7. I was SO excited!
I went to one of the workers and asked for a price check before lugging them all up to the counter. He reported back to me that they were $3 each. :-( I was so bummed, and I asked him if he could go with me to the aisle to help me find where the $.50 clipboards were located. He walked over there with me and realized that the sign did indeed say that they were on sale and that there were a lot of them sitting together, still in the cardboard packaging. So we strolled up to the counter together, and this amazing young gentleman asked the lady to do a price override so that I could buy them for the sale price!!! HALLELUJAH; I WAS HAPPY!!!!!! (and still am... can you tell??)
In the meantime, a lot of time had now passed, and I wasn't really paying attention to my watch. Suddenly I get a phone call from Derek who frantically tells me that they're doing the Halo game drawing in less than 5 minutes, and you have to be present to win! I could tell he was trying to stay calm, but he was really anxious and getting upset with me that I wasn't there. He asked me why I hadn’t answered my phone the past four times he had called, and all I could do was sheepishly say that I was on the phone with my mom telling her the good news about my clipboards and didn’t realize he had called so many times. But it was going to be okay… I was going to make it!!
So I started speed-walking through Wal-Mart with this rather large cardboard box filled with clipborads toward the entrance where I had the great parking spot. I was NOT going to miss this drawing! While practically running toward the door, a worker stopped me and told me that this entrance was now closed and that I would have to walk all the way to the other side to exit out of the other door! OH MY GOSH!!! Okay, okay, I can do this. I will NOT let my husband down on this one. I continue to speed-walk to the other side of the store (I am starting to understand why mothers go up to the Mall of Georgia in the mornings with their strollers and speed-shop together to work out), quickly show the lady my receipt for my awesome clipboard deal, and literally start running to my car once outside, which of course is located in my really great parking spot at the OTHER end of the lot! But gosh darnit, I am going to make it! I just have to!!!
I throw the clipboards in the back of the car and pray that none of my precious purchases break. I jump into my car and peel out, while finding my inner racecar driver. I speed through the parking lot (I hope no policeman is reading this!) and almost crash into the parking spot in front of GameStop. I literally sprint to the door, open it, and jump inside just in time to hear the manager exclaim, "Is she here?" Considering that there had only been like 3 girls in the entire store, I knew I had won! Oh my gosh I had won! Holy cow, I had won for my husband, and I made it back in time, and I'm about to ALSO win the Wife-of-the-Year award!!! I AM SOOOOO AWESOME!!!
Then I start to wonder... where is Derek, and why is he not rushing up to throw me up in his arms and start singing "For she's a jolly good wifey, for she's a jolly good wifey, for she's a jolly good wiiiiiifeeeeeeey, that nobody can deny!...?? Why is nobody looking at me?? I'M THE WINNER!!! And then I hear some 40-year old man say with complete glee, "yea, she's right out in the car... let me go get her!!!" What?? This didn’t make sense! Who is this man saying that SHE is out in the car! And then it hits me… OH NO!!! I didn’t win! Some other chick was about to take MY Wife-of-the-Year Award, and there was nothing I could do about it!!
I sulk over to Derek, feeling like a dog with its tail between its legs because it just got caught peeing on the new rug. He was calm, because I didn’t actually win, but I could tell he was perturbed that I hadn’t been back for the drawing with ten minutes to spare. He admitted to me that he would’ve been really upset if it had been my name that had been called and that I had not been there. So not only did I not win, I found out that I had kind of upset my dear hubby for not being there to not win. Boy, did I feel sheeeeepish.
So I learned my lesson to keep track of the time a little better, and all’s well that ends well, I guess. Derek definitely forgave me. Though technically I didn’t lose anything for him, so he says that there’s not really anything to forgive… so it’s somehow like a faux forgiveness, but I’ll still take it. I sure do love my dear husband, and it turned out to be a semi-entertaining Friday night!!
No comments:
Post a Comment