A New Treat!

The other day I was shopping online....I only shop online now...no crowds, they deliver it to your door..it is wonderful! And the few dollars I pay in shipping is the few I would have to pay to go somewhere where there are actually stores! So I am online shopping the JC Penny website and they have these dishes for sale...on closeout....at a super duper good price..and I like them! So I decide to order them. I browsed around the web to find a free shipping code for JC Penny and I ordered the dishes! theey are a deeper green than sage green, a nice color. My dad will hate them. He hates anything green.
I was so excited to get such a good deal...new dishes at a closeout price and free shipping! It kind of reminded me of my Ebay days, when I was buying everything...including the kitchen sink, off of Ebay. I would get so excited when I won the auction and got a good deal! I would run around the house yelling "I won! I won!" all excited. And then my husbandwould say "Jackie, you didn't actually WIN if you have to PAY for it." Obviously he just duidn't understand, so I ignored him.
So the dishes shipped out the next day and arrived at my house yesterday. I went home during lunch just to see the boxes (I had tracked them UPS). I knew I wouldn't have time to look at the dishes. My drive is 20 minutes each way. So just to see theboxes...that was all I needed.
It is so much fun to treat yourself to something special! Now, I am an extremely practical person. Someone offered to buy me an IPOD and I told them I appreciate it, but would rather have a new tire for my car. Now that would get me excited! And so to have new dishes....well you can't imagine my glory! I just LOVE useful things!! Buy me a hammer..I will love you forever!
Last night I went to the school to a meeting..all the while thinking about my still boxed dishes just waiting for me to come and lovingly unpack them and put them into their rightful spot of honor. I had to suffer through a vocabulary test..which was stupid anyway. I failed of course. but really, who uses those big words? just say what you mean. What do they expect from us rednecks anyways. Ashley would have been very disappointed in me. She wants to teach grammar. I didn't raise her good.
Anyway, after the meeting I enjoyed some "baby" time with the cutest baby in the world...little Stevie is a doll...and off I went to home! And I unpacked my dishes, very carefully...oohing and ahhhhing over each one. UNTIL I got to the last bowl....which was split. I don't mean cracked. It was split..there was a gap in the crack. So not a shipping problem, a manufacturing problem. You cannot imagine my dismay!
So I literally RAN to my computer and jumped on the JC Penny website! I emailed them asking if I could just replace the one bowl and not have to return the whole shipment. I am sad. They still have not responded to my email. I am sure someone over there does not understand the desperation I feel. The horror, the sadness. They are not good people.
So I wait...............