school supplies

Yesterday I went up to school to buy my textbooks.  I was just going to rent them online, but I will need them both semesters.  Also, the school has a special deal with a publisher that when a student buys the book in the school bookstore, she can register it online with a special code and also have access to a digital copy as well as other study materials including sample quiz questions and flash cards.

So I went to school on Monday morning and came home with a very heavy bag full of 11 books.  I didn't really pay any attention to the clerk at the cashier desk or to the amount I signed on the receipt.

Late last night, I was going to start reading some of the books, and I went through the bag, and I had two duplicates....like the girl had given me two of the same book....twice!  So I looked at the receipt, and she had only even rung me up for three books!  The total was $245.

This was a significant error in my favor, but I decided that I should go back to the bookstore and pay what was due.  It's not like there was a tiny little error in my favor that no one would probably ever catch; I had been undercharged almost $400!   Plus, there was the dilemma of the two books of which I had duplicates.  I wasn't charged for either of them.  I know there are exactly 32 students in my class, and if I had two books (that I didn't even pay for), then some one was going to be out a book.

So I went back to the bookstore tonight after work, and a nice young man named La Rue helped me.  He took back the duplicate books, credited me a charge that was incorrect, and rung me up for the books for which I still had to pay.

All said and done, I purchased just under $600 worth of books.  My conscious is clear.

I still have to pay for my instruments packs and name tag; those are not in stock yet.  But I have all the other supplies needed.  School starts in less than two weeks!  I am so excited!