a successful day

I stopped at the grocery store on the way to work this morning and bought some cut-up fruit for my lunch. But at lunch time, although the watermelon was good, the cantaloupe was a little wrong. It smelled stronger than I thought it should have, and the first bite was kind of sour - I thought it might just be because I had become accustomed to the mild taste of the watermelon, but I had one more bite and I could taste the sweet melon flavor underneath, and it was quite definitely hiding behind the flavor of fruit that has started to go off.

So I stopped eating it, of course, and I was about to throw it away, and then I thought, wait just a damn minute, that's five bucks I ought to get back, because dude, they sold me (very slightly) spoiled food! And it just happened today! So I swung by the grocery store on the way home, and the manager looked at the dates on the sticker and said Yeah, it looks like they might have pushed this juuust a bit too far - and not only refunded my credit card, but gave me the same amount back in cash as well. Double my refund for my troubles! I told him that was unnecessary, but he did it anyway, so yay the Harris Teeter at Maple Lawn. (Plus I didn't get sick from the couple of bites I had - hurrah!)

And then I successfully returned a thing to Amazon via the UPS store (we'd bought some stands for the table numbers at our wedding, but the place already had them), and picked up some dinner on the way home, and wheeled in the wheelie bins (because today was trash day). And now I am about to do at least one load of laundry and fold the laundry that has been dry since the weekend.

And write some more thank-you notes.