Long time members know that every year I have my Grandmother live with us during the winter and that every year she regularly "complicates" my efforts to take care of her.
I'm trying to remember she is 84 years old and that we are simply lucky to still have her around pulling stunts like she does.
Well today she comes home complaining about how much of a ripoff Mail Boxes, Etc. (UPS Store) is and that they charged her .55 cents per stamp for a book of .39 cent stamps. Well I know Mail Boxes, Etc. can be pricey but that just didn't sound right so I got in my car and drove over to complain a little.
After 10 minuts the proprietor was certain I was some crazy person and had no idea what I was talking about. He assured me that he doesn't sell .39 cent stamps for .55 cents and that NOBODY there has taken advantage of my elderly grandmother and he was there all day and knows nothing of the incident.
So I get home and re question my Grandmother about the facts of the day.
And it turns out that she bought a book of stamps at the local Hadji mart around the corner (where she shouldn't have been because she only goes there to buy ice cream and we told her she isn't suppossed to) and the clerk didn't overcharge her for the book of stamps but simply short changed her $5.00 (another reason I told her not to go to that store). Then she wanted to go to the store herself and demand her $5.00 back more than 4 hours after the fact.
So now the local MBE guy thinks I'm nuts and my Grandmother is still going to the local Hadji Mart to buy ice cream after a triple bypass last year. And they are stealing from her and for all I know she is inadvertently funding Al Quida.