8:59 p.m. [2002-08-08]

Beware...everything following is based on the story of a plaid-green pillow. Bored? Yes. Wait, no.

As my mom and I walk toward K-Mart, we hope and pray that the sirens won't go off. Actually I thought it would be funny.

See, the new K-Marts have those freakish new buy-it-yourself cash registers. You do the ringing up. Everything. They replaced many many working people. Sad, yes.

Anyway...my mom and I (AND the clerk) totally overlooked the obvious cream-colored ink tag sticking off the top of a relaxing pillow. The day of the purchase we walk out through the detectors which, of course, go off multiple times. The third time of trying to get through them, the clerk boy check our items...everything, including the pillow. Apparently he didn't see the tag and the detectors failed on the fourth try.

At home I dig out the plaid green pillow and, my first look at it, I see the cream-colored ink tag. Great. Really. Try to ply it off and you get squirted with the ink. Now we have to go back.

Weeks later (or maybe just one week) we return to K-Mart. Standing there, in front of the doors, I realize my crafty mom had handed me the bag with the bugged pillow. So I'd set the alarms off. (Whohoo!)

Sadly enough as we passed the last line of detectors, nothing happened. They only catch people on their way out...then why did they have detectors in the entrance? Wouldn't it be suspicious enough to see a person exit through the doors with 'DO NOT EXIT' plastered all over them? Nah. I don't know. I'm just babbling.

Finally, we got the tag clipped off the problematic pillow. And then spent a whole lot more money.

I see how this works...