I got my bracelet!
Okay, this story is going to take some setting up.See, there were these bracelets in Target the last time I was there. I fell in love with them the moment I saw them. They were sterling silver, with little Celtic designs & Swarovski (is that right?) crystals. They were also on clearance. (Oh, color me excited! I love jewelry, but I especially love it when it's on sale! :-D)
They had them in blue, purple, green, & brown. But for some reason, the brown one (which I really liked) was not marked down. I even asked at the register, & they gave me some spiel about the order to lower prices coming from the companies & there must be some reason the brown ones weren't on sale. Okay, fine. Wal-Mart would have given it to me for the sale price, but what-ever. I put it back & left with just the blue, purple, & green ones. (Just--ha! Most people would have been happy with only one, but I had to have them all. All, I tell you!)
This was right around the time SEVEN-YEAR SEDUCTION came out, so I was going from town to town signing copies I found in stores, anyway, which meant I stumbled across another Target rather quickly. They had the exact same bracelets on sale, but can you believe that at this store, they were $6 cheaper?!? Sheesh! Once again, tho, that darn brown one was not marked down. &^%$#@! But mama didn't raise no fools, so I picked up another blue one, another purple one, & another green one, & bought them all over again, figuring I'd return the more expensive ones to the other store & get my money back.
That was weeks ago. I'd pretty much given up hope of ever getting my pretty brown bracelet, & I knew that if I didn't return the others soon, I might never be able to. Then yesterday, my mother had a workshop to attend in a town with a Target store, so I gave her the bag of to-be-returned bracelets & asked her to take them back for me.
Next thing you know, she's calling me on her cell phone. They have all those bracelets I liked in a bin of clearance jewelry, marked down even more--$7 each. Of course, they don't have any of the Celtic ones, just the other designs that I didn't care for. Look for the brown one, I tell her. Keep looking!
She calls back. No, they didn't have the brown one--or any of the Celtic ones--in the bin, but she looked on the regular wrack at the jewelry counter & the brown one was there, still full price. Well, double &^%$#@! But what can you do? Okay, I say. Guess I'm just going to have to deal with the fact that I'm not meant to have that braclet. Return the others & we'll call it a day, thanks.
A few minutes later, she calls again. I will not believe what happened, she tells me. She took the brown bracelet up to the desk with the others that needed to be returned, & the woman who waited on her was the mother of a boy she had in school. A boy who loved her! And the mother couldn't have been nicer. My mom told her what was going on, how much I loved that brown bracelet, but how the darn thing was never marked down like the others. And the woman says, "Well, we'll just override that."
So I not only got my refund, but I also finally got my beloved brown bracelet for the bargain price of $7. How cool is that? I couldn't have gotten any luckier if I married a leprechaun.
I'm wearing it now. My beautiful, much-coveted silver & brown bracelet...with my Spongebob pajamas. As hard as it was to finally get my hands on, I may never take this sucker off!
