Me: "Good! Thank you! How are you?"
Checker: "Good, thanks."
Bagger (with greasy hair and tongue ring): "Hi! How are you?"
Me: "Good thanks! How are you?"
Bagger: "Good......Wow, you look really tired!"
Checker (whipping his head around): "That was really rude!"
Bagger: "No, I'm just sayin'...you just look exhausted!"
Me: "Oh, hah. Ya (smoothing out my ponytail), ya."
Bagger: "Like, you just look like you've had a really long day. Have you had a long day?"
Me: "Oh. Yeaaah, Yah. Probably. "(Still trying to tuck hair behind my ears. It was, after all, almost 5:30)
Me: "You are never going to guess what the Smith's bagger girl said to me!"
Brit: "How much did you spend?"
Me: "$40"
Brit: " Is this seriously what you just bought?"
Me: "Yes."
Brit: "Why were you in such a rush to do it today? And why did you buy 9 boxes of cereal and 6 boxes of lean cuisine?!
Me: "Well, the Smith's ad started today, and I was worried that it would all be gone and those were the only coupons I had that would work because we just signed up for the stupid coupon thing!"
Brit: "I have never known you to buy lean cuisine in all our married life! Why??"
Me: " I thought it was going to be gone because of all the crazy coupon people! I didn't think it would be that much."
Brit: "But I just don't understand, WHY!?"
Me: " I guess I just don't understand how to do it yet! It was stupid, ok? I am trying to save our family money, and if I don't have to buy cereal for a year, then that just saved us a bunch!"
Brit: "I'm not eating lean cuisine."
Me: "I didn't buy it thinking you would! I'll eat them for lunch sometimes. I used to eat them all the time in college..."
Later that night
Brit: "I'm just really worried about this coupon thing. It's like you have some gambling problem with it, or something."
Me: What? What!
Me: "This was my first time doing it this way. I'm trying to help out the family and you are getting mad at me!"
Brit: "I still just don't get why?
Me: "I told you! I thought it was going to be gone, and I wouldn't be able to use the coupons!"
Brit: "Ok, I guess. I'm sorry. I'm not mad. I just don't get it..."
Brit: "Are you sorry too?"
Me: "Did you just say sorry, to get a sorry out of me? Because I'm not sorry."
Brit: "Whoa! This is rediculous and has gone on way too long."
The Next Day (over text)
Me: "Are you going to Salt Lake?"
Brit: "No gas money"
Me: "We have gas money. You are just still mad about the $40."
Brit: "I'm not mad. It has nothing to do with the fact that you bought all that, and we still don't have anything to eat"
Me: "Obviously it does if you just said it."
Brit: "We'll just have to agree to disagree on that."
Later that next night at home
Brit: "Let's just be done with this."
Me: "Fine."
Brit: "Are you sorry?"
Me: "I'm not sorry about trying to save our family some money by clipping coupons, NO!"
Brit: "Well, let's just not do the whole coupon thing anymore and see if that's better, ok? It's not worth all of this."
Me: "Well, let me just see how it goes the next couple of times. Some of those people get free things, you know."
Brit: sigh
