Sometimes you just get lucky.

Recently someone told me I should look on the brighter side of things.  For a pessimist like me it’s hard.  This weekend, was a lucky one, however.

I shop at whole foods because I don’t eat corn syrup and a whole host of other gross things humans shouldn’t eat, but I appreciate some prepared food — because who has time to cook everything.  So there I was lamenting over the $15.00 vitamins (for my cat), and other expensive items I needed.  I find a check out counter without a line only to see the clerk removing the cash drawer and packing up her stuff.  Sighing and in for a long wait, a new clerk checks in and almost speedily starts ringing up my stuff.

Things in Whole Foods are looking up, when they only get better.  The clerk leans forward and something in her badge sets off the cash register.  The verdict.  Her badge scan had given me a 20% discount.  I saved a whopping 12 bucks, and a longish wait had a payoff.

The next day, I was still smarting from my last trip to the post office.  I asked for two books of stamps and got two books of ten each — one of those special collections that are more sticker than stamp.  I didn’t notice the price discrepancy, because I was doing all my mailing at once and was far too overwhelmed at the astonishing sum it takes to send a package from point A to point B when there is absolutely no guarantee that it will arrive within any kind of specified period of time, but I digress.

Stampless, I found myself in one of those mail drop stores that porn productions seem to favor.  To my delight, they sold stamps, so I asked for two books, and this time I checked — they were the 20 stamp variety.  So I get home to stamp my permanent absentee ballot, among other things, and as I’m peeling them apart, I discover, I’ve gotten three books for the price of two!  Somehow the clerk didn’t notice that two were stuck together like new dollar bills.

The bottom line, I’m up $17.40 — and luck is with me.

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