11.01.2010

Birthday Present Stress

A couple of weeks ago I went to Toys R Us to buy Keegan's birthday present. I already knew what I was going to get since Ryan & I were there the week before with Keegan looking around. We decided to get him a new four wheeler since he is getting way too big for the 2 that he already has!

Since it is a big item you can't just grab it off the shelf so I grabbed the slip out of the little holder and took it up to the register to buy it. They were out of stock so I had to special order it. No biggie, it would only take 7-10 days to come in and his birthday was still a month away. I paid for the four wheeler and went on my way.

It came in a couple of days later but we never had the chance to go pick it up until last Thursday. Ryan picked it up for me {he wasn't with me when I bought it} and when he got home he said "I thought it would have regular four wheeler handles on it, not a steering wheel". My face automatically adjusted to the "what in the hell are you talking about" look and I assured him that it doesn't have a steering wheel and he said it did! I went into the garage to look at it and it was the WRONG thing!! I was mad livid, like steam coming out of my ears livid...I couldn't believe they gave us the wrong thing, not to mention it is non-refundable!!

Well...it turns out I bought the wrong thing BUT it totally wasn't my fault! You see they had the wrong slip in the holder so I thought I bought the four wheeler and I really didn't. On Saturday morning I took it to Toys R Us first thing in the morning and asked if I could exchange it for what I thought I bought in the first place. I figured it wouldn't hurt to take the chance and they were the same price so the whole "non-refundable" thing wouldn't be an issue! I told the lady the story of what happened and she said "oh that's no problem, let me check and see if we have any in stock!" Words can't explain how relieved I was to hear that and better yet they had 3 in stock so I got to take the four wheeler home with me!! And even better...the four wheeler was on sale so she gave me money back for the difference and I left the store with $53 in my pocket!! Maybe the whole mix up was a good thing! :)


There it is...his new big boy four wheeler! {battery operated of course...this momma doesn't trust a 3 year old with a real one yet!}

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