Shoot me now!

Aaaaaargh. As if I needed a reason to hate WalMart any more than I already do. I'm crazy busy trying to get ready to go to Utah this weekend. More crazy than usual because we are camping for a couple days and that requires so much more gear than normal.

On my to do list this week was to get an oil change on my car. It's only about 1,000 miles overdue. So today I truck all three kids over to WalMart where I can get a quick change and buy a few remaining items for the trip. I check in my car and hand over my keys and the guy tells me it will be ready in 10 minutes.

I do my shopping and return to pick up the car. I paid for my oil change and then..... they can't find my keys. ANYWHERE. There were 5 people looking for my keys for about 15 minutes. Addie needed a nap so badly, the other two kids were hungry and needing a potty stop. So, I told them that I was going to run my kids to the restroom (yuckyuckyuck) and then take them up to the McDs at the front of the store. Gave them my cell phone number to call me to keep me posted. Then I called Al and put him on alert that he might have to leave work to bring me some keys.

After I fed the kids (about 25 minutes later) I went back to the auto counter and found that not only had they not located my keys, they had not come up with any solution for me. Hadn't called the manager or anything. I'm wondering if they thought my keys were going to magically appear or maybe I would forget about them or what?!?! By this time I was more than just inconvenienced, I was mad. Really mad. I called Al to come over and bring me some keys. By the time he got there, about 3 managers were finally bustling around trying to think of a solutions. They called all the customers who had been in that morning to see if they had given the wrong keys to someone, etc. Finally, they refunded my oil change and committed to paying to replace my keys. The keyless entry remote is going to be $200 alone.

I'm finally home (this entire debacle took 3 precious hours today) and everyone is happily fed and in bed. Now I have to see about replacing everything before we leave. Seriously, what a nightmare.

Since I'm here, I might as well say that I'm not sure how long the whole private blog thing is going to last. When I decided to go private I had no idea that blogger only allows you to invite 100 viewers. Sooooo... I have quite a few more than 100 people who have requested an invite. Stay tuned, I'm not sure what I'm going to do.