Life Back in the Midwest

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Walmart 100% Satisfaction Guarantee Tested With Crappy Crackers

Last week I tried these disgusting Sam's Choice brand Salsa and Cream Cheese snack crackers that Tania had decided to purchase from Walmart. I know just saying, "Walmart Salsa and Cream Cheese crackers" is enough for most people to stray away from them, but I mean even River wouldn't eat them and that kid eats any cracker no matter what flavor. Anyway today I read on the back of that box of crackers, "100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE If you are not completely satisfied, Wal-Mart will gladly provide you a full refund." As we were going to go to Walmart I decided what the hell, let's see if I can return this...

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Well with two kids in the shopping cart I pull up to the Walmart Customer Service counter with that silly cracker box in my hand and absolutely no receipt to aid in my cause. A Midwest-Walmart-typical, unattractive and overweight white woman greets me from behind the counter. So I reach over the counter and point to the actual message on the box as I explain to her that I had read this guarantee and (making my disgusting yuck face) that these crackers tasted just plain AWFUL! So much to my surprise without event a hint of hesitation or look in my eyes she grabs the box from my hand, points to a number on the box and quickly punches some keys on her computer. Immediately there's a CHA-CHING! the drawer ejects, she pulls out a dollar and a quarter and hands it to me. Then she thanks me! I say a surprising "Thanks!" and turn away from her with a psychotic grin. Laughing out loud in disbelief, I hold the dollar bill high in the air taught between my two hands, like I won it, and after a long pause... ... ... ... I put the small, meaningless change into my pocket; then with an odd perma-grin remaining on my face, push my cart of kids to another part of the store. Huh. At Walmart. Imagine that!

Saturday, March 04, 2006

A Rockton cop finally caught doing wrong

In my original home town it looks like there was a cop, named Dan Schroeder, that was finally caught doing wrong. That crew has had it coming for a long time. I hope this is just the beginning as this offense is minor compared to the stuff they did to us kids growing up. Teenagers continually get pulled over by these cops and written up for nothing but wearing a baseball cap when they were simply legally driving around sober posessing nothing illegal. There are stories from my younger years worse than that, but I don't feel like ranting those stories because this post is not about those incidents, it is about this one cop. Anyway what are we supposed to tell our kids when its the police get that busted for doing illegal stuff like telling someone to lie? If you do wrong you admit wrong. I'm not allowed to lie to a cop so a cop shouldn't tell someone to lie. Humility to the whole department for ever electing that guy to "Officer of the Year". That cop better get kicked off the force and hopefully be humiliated into considering another profession. There are just too many corrupt police officers out there. Keeping an open mind, I'm not saying that this guy is one, but his now tarnished reputation hopefully opens up some of that community's ears and eyes to questioning honesty in the Rockton Police Department. MAY THE TRUTH LIVE.


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