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i actually bought granola earlier today (yesterday?) and an odd thing happened. i took my bag of granola (1 pound) to the register to pay for it, and right after i had paid, i noticed a moth in my bag. i told the cashier and she said i should go get another bag, so i did, but when i went to fill up the new bag, i pulled the lever down and way too much granola poured into the bag before i could stop it. i weighed the new bag and it was a bit over 2 pounds, so when i got back to the register i told the cashier that i'd accidentally gotten too much granola and got out the rest of the money to pay for the extra pound. the manager said it was fine though, so i got a pound of granola for free and i feel very bad about it. i put the new bag in the freezer in the hopes that any bugs living in it will die, but i don't know what kinds of temperatures moths like. anyway, back to the money. i feel guilty about getting it to begin with because i don't think i earned it. yes my rights were violated, but i feel uncomfortable profiting because someone else did a bad thing. also, i feel like getting arrested was a noble thing and that was very important to me, but getting money for it makes me feel cheap and gross. the only thing i plan on spending this money on immediately is paying off my library fines and parking tickets because i heard that stuff is bad for your credit score. also, i miss going to the library. the rest is going right into savings and i won't be touching it for a while. that makes me feel better than if i were planning on spending this money on frivolous junk. and i guess there's a lesson in this on how when you do good things sometimes you do get rewarded and not just internally. it's just, oddly, a lesson i wish i hadn't learned.
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