View of the day-Corn at sunset...it's pretty tall, but soon they will be cutting it down to size.
Finally a day to sleep in. It was cloudy, cool so it really wasn't a drying day at all. After having coffee and getting the 'returns' organized, we left for Jamestown.
Since it was lunch and we had to return the computer power supply to a place that was right next door to a Chinese Buffet, we figured that was a pretty good place to have lunch. Returning the power supply took 3 minutes and was a very pleasant transaction...next stop was Walmart.
When Marilyn had purchased the video card, she asked no less than three times, if she would be able to return the card if it wasn't needed..."no problem, just do it within 15 days". Then she asked if it was going to be an issue that the card rang through as a flash drive..."no problem, as long as the bar code matches, it will come up at the same price". No problem, right?
First Ms. Return tells Marilyn it can't be returned because it is a memory card and they don't take back anything that can hold personal data...Marilyn explains it isn't a flash drive...just look at the huge box and what's in it...it's a graphics card and there is nothing wrong with it, it's the computer that's shot. Then the performance began...the manager was in a meeting, so Ms. Return called the electronics department...they had no idea what the return policy was for video cards...there was no way she was going to part with the $90 and get into trouble. Her cohort at the next till said she wasn't sure what the return was either but she knows you can return routers...she does it all the time.
Marilyn proceeds to explain that she knows exactly how Ms. Return feels because she works at Staples in the off season and sees a lot of the same thing and because of that Marilyn also explains that is the reason she asked three times and confirmed the till mistake before she left the store...just to make sure she had the return policy figured out. Ms. Return claims there should have been something on the receipt stating the return policy (there wasn't anything) and again, she wasn't going to get in trouble for refunding the money. Marilyn is getting a bit testy by now and tells her it is a bit ridiculous that this is such an issue because after she returns the card she is going to go purchase a new computer for Donna...the cash is staying in the store!
Finally the manager comes out...with an afro that hardly made it through the doorway...honest! That thing was at least two feet wide...talk about a tough time having a conversation...it was mesmerizing. Anyway, he confirmed everything and Marilyn got her refund while Ms. R. was still frantic about doing something wrong. Ahhh, the retail life...good times...
Al got to check out some of the machinery lots...he was worn out from yesterday's "hokey pokey"...no shopping for him, so he just took it easy in the pickup and waited. Once we got back to the farm, Marilyn started getting the computer up and running while Al went out to the field to see how the combine was doing...and to fuel and service. The rain gauge there showed only .7 inch, but the home crowd will be happy to know the Riders flag is officially off the combine and will be returned back to it's owner...the stars and stripes have made their return to the flagpole.
The rest of the day was baseball and computing...
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