Okay. So I was at Target today enjoying my shopping spree when grandma decided to ruin it for me. I was browsing through all the sales items in the baby department and found a couple of sweaters for my little man. Like any other shopper, I took them off the rack and placed them on my cart along with all the other items I planned on purchasing. I turned my back from my shopping cart for a few minutes while I look for more awesome deals when all of the sudden one of the sweaters I picked out went missing. “Where did it go?’ is what I asked myself. I’ve decided to trace my steps to see if perhaps I had dropped it on the floor or something but nothing. It just mysteriously disappeared. By now I’m pissed and totally clueless so I’ve decided to do a little investigation. I’m following everyone around me, getting awfully close to their cart to see if they’re the culprit, still nothing, until I saw grandma walking away from the baby department to the electronics section. I went with my hunch and followed her. I think I might have scared her a little bit because she went to go to one of the workers there and pretend to ask a question. I took that opportunity to look in her cart and guess what? She had the sweater in there. I so badly wanted to yank it out and tell her to be ashamed of herself but I couldn’t find the balls to do it. So I just kept following her around and hoping she would grow a conscience and give me back my stuff but I was sadly disappointed. I’m actually still in shocked. I mean, come on! I know you’re old but do you have to play the grandma card? What kind of example are you teaching your grandkids? That it’s okay to steal other people’s stuff. I know that technically the item was not mine yet because I have not paid for it but geez. It was in my cart! Grandmas are not grandfathered to the shopping etiquette rules, which is, ONCE IT’S IN YOUR CART, IT’S YOURS TO PAY FOR! The thing that upset me most is that it was the only one left in my son’s size. My husband said I should have grabbed it out of her cart since I can outrun and take her down anyway. LOL. Next time I’ll just be more careful as not to leave my cart unattended. Shopping lesson learned. Thanks grandma!
