by Arlene Wright-Correll

Created on: February 15, 2009

$10.37 plus $4.92 equals $25.00!

I was quite pleased when one of my favorite credit card companies "partnered" up with one of my favorite building supply companies and sent me two nice promotional coupons to be used by March 29, 2009 providing I pay for our building supplies with our favorite credit card. No problem because sometimes the "best things in life are free"!

This was fine with me. Receiving $10.00 off any order of $50.00 or more and $25.00 off any order of $250.00 or more was more than welcomed since we were planning a small building project. No one uses or likes $35.00 worth of freebies than me!

We make our building list, check it twice and since it we know it will be a lot more than a total of $300.00 and since we have two coupons we take some of the hardware list such as brackets, nails etc and decide to use it with our $10.00 off coupon and off we go to our favorite building supply company one day while we were off on an errand in Bowling Green, KY.

Our first order was about $60.00 so we qualified to use our $10.00 off coupon and when our cashier totaled our order and scanned the coupon it did not work. The cashier upon dutifully double checking the coupon, the date and whatever else it said confirmed that the coupon was valid and commenced to do some computer, double whammy, "voodoo that you do so well' kind of stuff' and finally got the $10.00 off our bill and we signed the printed receipt for the correct amount and happily headed home.

The second part of our order was the big stuff and it would require a truck and a large trailer to haul it back so we decided to use a closer to home branch of our favorite building supply store in Glasgow, KY.

After an hour or two of loading up 3 large construction carts with what we required to start our little project we headed to the commercial checkout counter and I informed the cashier that all the three carts were on one order and we would be paying for it with our favorite credit card and using a $25.00 off coupon. The cashier proceeded to ask if these three carts were all together. "Oh Boys", I thought as I responded "correct".

The next question as she counted four 2 x 4's was, "Four 2 x 4's?" "Here we go" I thought as I looked a many different pieces of lumber etc and decided to say, "Whatever is on these carts and whatever amounts you count will be what there is". Que Sera Sera as the song lyrics go almost!

Finally she completed her checking out tasks and I proceeded to give her my $25.00 off coupon, which

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