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Clawmarks on Pumpkins
The Halloween Blog of CreepyKitty. Updated July-November.
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The Pumpkin Problem
I swear I have had the worst luck today
with pumpkins.... It has been a neverending battle
up-hill.. Like the gods were telling me "No! You can't have a
pumpkin today!"
Well first off. I was soo excited
because my mom was coming up today to help me decorate. We went
to breakfast, had fun doing that, went to Wal Mart, and was getting
stuff we needed to decorate with and we found some great pumpkins at
Wal mart, but they wanted to charge us BY THE POUND! $2.99 per
pound to be exact!! 
I was so livid I just walked off and left the 3 pumpkins we were going
to buy just sittng there. The girl wanted to argue with us about
it so she could freaking have them!
I told mom they
would be different at Food World, we were going there anyway to pick me
out a bday cake for my party next week. On the way there we had to take
a detour down this other road, and come back up because our town was
having thier dumb high schools homecoming parade! And we
were right there! I am not kidding there was the traffic light, the
street with the parade, and Food World!! And we could'nt cross
the dang road! And we had to go way out of our way down this
other street to get there. So we finally get in the Food World
parking lot and we can hardly get in the store becuase they have a
cookout cart there with millions of people standing around that were
all attending the parade.
But the pumpkin fiasco doesnt stop there... They had pumpkins for
very resonable prices $2.20 for pretty dang big pumpkins (NOT by the
lbs.) and I had found the most perfect one-- not a flaw, perfectly
round and squatty. Proceeded to the checkout counter, the cashier
was running her mouth and left the convayer belt on too long, the
pumpkin ran up under the side of her register and got a huge gash in
it!! By then I was so infuriated I started yelling at the cashier
and she was just looking at me like I was crazy, she put the pumpkin
over to the side and said "well I can't sell you that one since the
skin is broke it will start to rot" and she was slamming stuff around
and slamming around the other peoples groceries while she was checking
them out. She then told me that "we will get you another one" and
I got really fed up and was like "NO, I will get another one
myself." 
So I go back to where all the pumpkins were and tell the produce
manager all about it. And he finds me the biggest pumpkin they
have and puts a sticker on it for the same price as the much smaller
ones! That made me feel so much better. I couldn't wait to
get out of that horrible store. My mom and I were in line and we
decided not to go back to the jabberjaw idiot cashier that does not pay
attention again, unfortunately, got in a line with someone who was
apparently on crack. Since the pumpkin was so large it was hard
for my mom or I to lift it and when we went through the line we left in
the in the buggy. Well the cashier just looked at us. My
mom said "can you scan it with the hand scanner because my daughter and
I have trouble lifting heavy things?" and the cashier replied "I don't
have one." My mom said "So we have to lift it and put it on the
register?" and she just looked at us and said "Yep." By this
point, I was about ready to kill somebody, and there was another Food
World employee in line behind us checking out groceries and she butts
in asking "You don't have a hand-held scanner??!!" and the cashier
looks at her "Nope." like she doesn't have a care in the world and is
staring off into space the whole time. Needless to say.. We
FINALLY got checked out, with a little help from that nice person in
line behind us.
Ohh and it STILL doesn't stop there....
See my bday party is having a Halloween theme to it, mom and I bought
Halloween plates and everything and I wanted a Halloween cake.
Well before we go check out I get over to the bakery in Foodworld and
they tell me they don't make Halloween cakes the best they have is a
scarecrow cake for fall. 
I just gave up right there. And you know what I am going to
do? I am going to freaking drive over to where I used to live, in
Birmingham to the Publix I used to go to every day where they always
had EVERYTHING next week before my party and get me a freaking
Halloween cake!
And after that mom and I were so out of
it we just hung it up and came home and started to decorate. We
got the outiside done except for flowers, and I got half the inside
done. I am still not finished though because when the hubby got
home we went back to that sorry ass wal mart and got TONS of
mums! We got two huge baskets of them and four smaller pots of
them to put out front! I am gonna take pics of it tomorrow it
looks so awesome! But the front is finished now.
So that
has been my day today. I tried so hard to make today really
exciting and fun, despite the setbacks. I kept on decorating on
and off until about 9:30pm tonight. Boy and I am tired.
Just gonna have to finish the rest of it tomorrow. But I am
really glad I got the front porch done, looks really good out there
with all the lights, scarecrow, and my single pumpkin I fought tooth
and nail for today.
Mood:  - Infuriated
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Posted: 11:45 PM, Friday, September 30 |
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