"Golden arms, golden arms"

What is happening to quality? With a little patience I guess poor quality can pay-off for the average consumer such as Rogers and me. On Saturday the following events occurred, 75% of which were too our benefit:

• Arrive home with our Chinese take-out only to find Lisa's white rice is actually fried rice. Back to the store we go. They replace it.
• Go to Verizon Wireless to have my phone numbers transferred to my Blackberry. They succeed in doing this, but can't figure out what code to put in on their computer to charge us the $10 so they say "Don't worry about it. Merry Christmas." It was free.
• At Target we try to buy a curling iron for my Grandma for Christmas only to find that it has been recalled. Because we had to go get another one and get back in line, they gave us a coupon for $3 off of any purchase.
• Because we'd saved $10 at Verizon, we decided to splurge and buy a $10.99 Stuffed Crust at Pizza Hut. We make our order and go to the store. Upon arrival, they seem to have never entered the order and have to take it all over again. They give us our pizza for free. (The confusing part was that they clearly took my number, because they even read me my order from the last time I'd ordered there in case I wanted the same thing.) They knew how to take the order, but not place the order.

So with a grand savings of $24+ tax Lisa and I had a better Saturday than we did a Wednesday or a Thursday. That's $24 more to put toward Christmas presents or 7 Eleven Big Gulps.

(Of course that "better" was only enhanced by renting and watching Black X-Mas.)

Hey, we'll be in town this weekend. I hope to see some of you on Saturday.