Why I Don't Play the Lottery

First of all, I don't play the lottery because I think it is a big waste and not a God honoring use of money.


However, my luck at Kohl's last night would be another reason. I needed a pair of khaki pants because you can't live through a summer without them. You cannot pretend you work at Target without them. Mine no longer fit, so, since Kohl's always has things on sale ;-) we decided to check it out. Katie enjoyed trying on clothes for school, which is only a month away for her. I found my quasi khaki pants. I'm not sure if they would be Target qualified or not, but they'll do.


While Katie tried on all sorts of cure things, I prowled and discovered Kohl's new little furniture section. My eye fell on a narrow end table that would be perfect next to my sofa and would actually fit. The Zoe looked perfect for color, size and generic style. My design consultant also approved so we grabbed a Zoe box and headed to the check out with our purchases.


While adjusting the contents of the car so we could drive to the fireworks in one vehicle, we noticed that the box had two different tables pictured on the two big sides, the Zoe and the Sierra, but the smaller sides and top pictured the Zoe, so we were pretty confident that we had the right table. When putting together the table rose to the top of the list, I opened the box and got nervous that the color was ... not ... right; so I pulled enough out of the box to see that the drawer pull, color and design matched the single picture of the Sierra not the five different pictures of the Zoe. 


With the contents all back in the box, though not so neatly, I headed off for Kohl's to return the table. The lady at the return counter was so apologetic and as befuddled at the packaging as I. Of course, with the sales flyer that starts today in hand, I thought maybe I should check out some navy pants as there were none of those in my closet either. After finding a pair, I decided to check out this crazy box phenomenon. Every other box had one picture on all the sides - every box. We had picked out the only misprinted and incorrectly packaged box. 


Nor ready to be fooled twice, I opened it enough to insure that it was the right one and hauled it to the front. Might as well try and try again. Of course, tonight I got 15% off and Kohl's bucks.


I guess I may not be lucky, but I am blessed.