I Need Bail Money, or the story of how I broke the Golden Rule!

Middle school social is Friday night. At orientation this weekend, I signed up to bring a case of drinks for the party. Today the drinks were due. I called the sponsor and asked which kind she still needed. Sprite or 7-Up would be great, for those kids who don't drink caffeine (in other words, for those kids who don't drink caffeine in front of their parents). I told her I would get whichever one of those were on sale. So I went to the local grocer on my way from cheerleading practice to football practice. I load up my two youngest in a cart and head to the drink aisle. Pepsi products were on sale "Buy 2, Get 2 Free." Well, that didn't cover Sprite or 7-Up, so I grabbed two 12-packs of Sprite. When I get to the check out, first the lady checker greeted me and then began chatting with her buddy. The friend, then walks away and comes back with a Frappucino from the in-store Starbucks and the two talk some more and then the Frap deliverer takes over the register. I'm pretty annoyed, considering I'm the only one in line and honestly, it's only going to take seconds to check me out, couldn't she change shifts right after me? The boy rings up the first 12-pack as I'm swiping my credit card to pay and the price of $5.99 pops up. This was the same price as the B2G2F deal, so I ask, "Oh, are the Coke products included in the deal?" "Yes, they are," he replies. "I say, well, then I'll go get 2 more." I do and I come back and he tells me to sign the machine for the drinks and then begins to ring up the next two 12-packs and says, that'll be $12.97 with tax. I tell him that the second two are the free two. "Oh, it's too late now sir, I had already rung up the first two and you have to scan all four to get the discount," he states. "And, I told you I was getting two more, since they were part of the deal, even though the signs in the aisle say that only the Pepsi products are on sale, but you told me Coke was included." "If you go over to customer service, they will give you back your money," he informs me. I explained to Frap boy that I had already waited on him and his girlfriend to finish their Frappucino before being waited on, had to haul my two kids back to the drink aisle for two more 12-packs and now he wants me to stand in line to get the $12.97 that I am about to hand to him back from another register? "Yes sir, they will be happy to help you in customer service." "To hell with that. I'm just going to put these two 12-packs in my cart and pretend you didn't just suggest to me that I put $13 in your till and take it out of another one. If it is that big of a deal, someone will need to chase me down in the parking lot to complete the transaction." So, I took my drinks and walked out of the store, fully expecting some pre-pubescent manager to chase me down. As I put the drinks in the back of my car and then buckled each of the kids into their car seats and even returned the cart to the cart gate at the front of the parking lot, nobody even as much as came outside. I hope that means that even the checker thought about how stupid what he asked me to do was. So today, I was the mean people that suck, but he deserved it.