The Longest Check Out Experience In The History Of The World...

So Sam and I were out running around tonight, and I wanted to pop into Joann's to take a gander at all of their scrapbooking stuff they had on sale. I got a couple of stamp sets that were 50% off, but my real find was white 8x10 textured cardstock on clearance for $0.10 a sheet. (For all of you non-scrappers, that paper usually goes for about $0.50 per sheet) It was such a great buy, I decided to get 50 sheets. So Sam and I take my items up to the counter, and the clerk dude starts counting the paper (ok, I think, so he's got to count them) but then he says he has to ring up each sheet individually. I actually laughed out loud because I thought he was making a joke, but no - he's actually ringing each one up individually. So I say, "Oh, I thought you were joking." Nope, that's how they have to do it, he says (which I'm not entirely sure I buy.) So he gets to #50 and turns the screen toward me so I can see that he's rung up 50, and I notice that the total is $15. Now, I'm not great at mental math, but even I know that 50 times 10 cents is five bucks! That's when I notice that each sheet rang up for $0.30! So I tell clerk dude that there was a clearance sticker back on the paper bin. So he calls two managers to check into it and long story short, someone mistakenly put the $0.10 clearance sticker on it and they really should be $0.30 but they've got to honor the price since that's what was listed. So now clerk dude and the two managers spend a ridiculously long amount of time trying to figure out how to ring the sheets up at $0.10 each. Finally they figure it out and clerk dude starts ringing the sheets up again...yep, still individually. But this time, for each sheet he scans he has to push all of these buttons on the screen to change the price for EACH INDIVIDUAL FRICKIN' SHEET! I looked at Sam and saw his eyes bug out of his head when he realized what clerk dude was doing to ring up each sheet, and patient, even keeled Sam asks incredulously, "You have to do that for each sheet!?!" Clerk dude says, "Yeah, this is going to take awhile." So now I'm trying to decide if we should just scrap it all (heh heh "scrap it") and cut our losses, but we've already got like 15 minutes invested in this venture and it is a great price I'm getting on the paper, so we decide to stick it out. The picture above is the longest receipt known to man, with 50 single sheets of paper scanned in separately. So consider yourself honored if you receive a white card from me in the near future, cuz I sure suffered a lot for my art! :-)