THE CHAIR SAGA

It all started the day before Thanksgiving, when we went shopping for a recliner.  Patty has wanted "her very own" chair for reading and watching TV, so off we went.  The largest furniture company in Tucson has about 4 or 5 stores, and they're all very large, with countless displays.  Sam Levitz furniture had exactly the one she wanted, so the purchase was made.  Before making payment, I asked the salesperson if we would save any money by waiting until the weekend sales kicked in.  I was told no, so we went ahead and bought the chair.   We had to drive to the main warehouse to pick it up, and we were home with the new chair by mid afternoon.

 

On the way home, we stopped to pick up a newspaper that had all of the Thanksgiving weekend ads. It was so big and heavy, you almost needed a shopping cart just to get the paper to your vehicle.  When we got around to looking through the ads, I discovered that Sam Levitz had what looked like the same chair on sale for $50 less that what we payed.  "Son of a B#@%&"!!  The idea of being taking advantage of, even though it was only $50, kicked my blood pressure up a couple of notches.  

Armed with the ad, and the receipt, yesterday, we returned to the furniture store, in search of Lorenzo who sold us the chair.  Ready to do battle, we were intercepted by a rather attractive young lady who said she was helping Lorenzo, and could she help.  Being slightly disarmed, I explained the situation that we were told we wouldn't save any money by waiting a couple of days to make the purchase.  She immediately said "let's get you your $50 back, follow me" Slightly amazed, and with my blood pressure back down to a reasonable level, the refund was in cash, and we started to leave the store.  

But wait!  Patty stopped to look at some area rugs that were also on sale, and the price for these rugs was so ridiculously cheap, we ended up with two of them.  Not knowing exactly where they were going to go, it didn't matter, because neither one of us can pass up a super-duper bargain like what was staring us in the face.  Hey, they were practically paying us to carry them out the door!  It turned out these were the last two rugs in any of their stores, so they were rolled up, and we drove off with a short lived chair refund, but, we now have 2 rugs, and absolutely no idea where they're going to go. Who said life isn't full of twists and turns?