Are you kidding me?

Well here is another fairly-good story about yesterday's adventures.

I went shopping to buy my boyfriend a pair of LeBron James basketball shoes for Valentine's day. I figured he'd probably want the ones that are blue and gold, so I went on a hunt for them. Granted, I'm not even 100% sure about my boyfriend's shoe size, but I think it's the same as my brother's, a size 13. Foot Locker had the shoes for $140, but Finish Line had them for $105, on sale! Bada-Bing! Well...Finish Line didn't have them in any size bigger than an 11, so they told me that I should go to one of thier stores down in Indianapolis, because they get a lot more shoes in stock. After searching the mall and getting really hungry, I decided that's what I'd have to do.

I went down to Indianapolis last night (I had to go there anyways for a Lent Book Club thing, so I just went early), and went into a Finish Line in Clay Terrace (super nice outdoor mall). The guy there was trying on shoes for himself, so he wasn't really concerned with my needs, and the girl didn't seem to have a clue what she was talking about. So I guided her through it. I showed her the type of shoe I wanted, and said, "I want the ones that are blue, not black" - she's like "ummmm" and the guy behind her said, "we don't have those ones." Oh fantastic. So she said, "I can order them for you." I thought well, at least I could give him a picture of the shoes and let him know that's what he's getting. So I said okay.

She looked them up on her computer, and showed me a picture of the shoe, and I said yeah that's the one... then I said, "wait a minute, $59.99? It was $105 at the Finish Line in Lafayette." She said, "well... it must've gone on sale today or something." I'm like are you sure?? "Yeah" okay... Then I said, "well this shoe is $140 originally, and it's $140 at Foot Locker"... she's like, "that's why you shop at Finish Line and not Foot Locker" ha those words...she will eat those words... haha jk (Mind you, I had told her the shoes were for my boyfriend, and had tried to text message him for his shoe size... remember that for later)....

Anyways, after I got pulled over for speeding on the way home from Indy (no ticket though!) I went to bed happy that I had found such a good bargain. Wow. How did I get such a deal?

So today, I went to get a picture of the shoe off the website... I put in the product code off of my receipt. Well lo and behold, the product comes up, and what is it? The PRESCHOOLER's shoe. She ordered my boyfriend a size 13 in preschooler sizes. Oh joy. Now, tell me, how could she get this wrong, after all of my questions? And there is no way in my mind she thought I was buying this for a preschooler, because how would a preschooler have text messaging? And who in the world would date a preschooler at my age???

(Looking at the pictures side-by-side, you can tell the preschooler ones aren't as bright and shiny ; ) ha)....

I'm not really sure what to do, but I'll give him the poem I wrote about the shoes, with the picture of the shoes on it, and then after he figures out what he's getting, I'll tell him this story also...

Really, truly, things like this happen to me far too often!

I think they should give me the shoes for the price I paid, don't you??? Let me know your opinion. They owe me big-time!!! The biggest issue is, Rob is probably going to make me take them back altogether because he'll know how much they cost! (Since he'll know I thought I was getting a deal and I really wasn't).... dang Finish Line for trying to ruin my day of love!!

The best part of all of this is.... I had an entirely different gift for him that got "ruined," too - I had drawn a sketch of the two of us and was going to frame it and give it to him, but he saw it and knew what I was doing so I had to move to plan B! Now plan B has been ruined.... Seriously, don't you think they should even pay ME for this?! ha :)