I can’t help myself. “Bad head of lettuce?”
He shakes his head sadly “Covered with rust.”
“Rust?”
“Oh yeah, that’s what these here brown spots are called.” He tenderly peels back a leaf.
He brightens, “Oh yeah, they’ll take back anything, especially if you got a receipt.” He reaches into a vast pocket in his coveralls and removes a bulging wallet. . It is fatter than a Big Mac; oozing receipts, cards and bills. Donald is a saver. Donald has his name written on his wallet with a sharpie. He removes a wad of receipts molded into a curved brick and pries one off with a yellowed thumb nail. His bushy eyebrows rise with pride. “Last summer I took back 13 watermelons.”
I can’t help myself. “What was wrong with them?”
“Oh you name it. Some weren’t ripe, some were too ripe” he pauses, remembering fondly. “A variety of problems.”
I can’t help myself. “Is there anything you wouldn’t take back?”
He stuffs the wallet back in his coveralls and tugs at his rubbery ear, wrinkles stacking up on his forehead. “Well now, I’d have to think about that. “
I wait breathlessly while he cogitates.
“Next!” the customer service lady with the ink black beehive says to no one in particular. Donald bears his rusty lettuce proudly…leaving me hanging.
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5 comments:
You left out one detail - the man was, of course, wearing pajama pants.
Sounds like his own kind of eating disorder. I did see a lady with a cart full of dead plants return them to Lowe's for a refund. What??? Well, Lowe's does guarantee them!
The day before I had Kate I told my mom and needed to go to Walmart to get some last minute things and do some returns. I volunteered to return her something and soon enough I was in line for 30 minutes, had a several reciept return, and dying. The Walmart return line is not for the weak and certainly not for the overly pregnant! :)
As for the returning, my mom is a master and likes to buy several different things, check them out at home, and return the ones that aren't perfect. My dad always says with the way she returns everything, she might return him sometimes if she could!
haha! this is so funny! I can picture it perfectly
It's true...WalMart does take back pretty much anything!
The rusty lettuce story is too funny! Gotta ask...is it true!?
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