Call of Duty 4 = FREE

Yeah, that's right. Free. How, you may ask? Well, let me tell you.

Steph and I took our bi-weekly trip to Target to pick up the essentials. Body wash and hand soap for Steph, Call of Duty 4 for me. We also got a few other things, then proceeded to the register. The young man at the check out started scanning in our items, but he was using the hand scanner. I'm not really sure why, but he was. He got to the game, when he asked me if I was using a gift card. I said I wasn't, then he looked at the screen and realized he had to scan everything in all over again.

This is when it got odd.

When he got to a pair of gloves for Steph, the scanner wouldn't work. the clerk said, "I aint about to mess with this. Guess you get those for free." Yeah, I was pretty shocked, but what do you say to that? He continued with the other stuff, and had the same problems on three other items. You guessed it, those were 'free' too. One of those items just happened to be the game pictured above. When he told us the total, somewhere around $45, I asked, "are you sure?" He replied, "Yeah."

I paid the man and left.

In retrospect, I feel a little guilty that I walked out about $70 ahead, but if Target wants to hire people like this to work in a critical part of the store, they really need a more efficient screening process. As we walked out, I said to Steph, "I'm pretty sure that guy won't be working here much longer, but if he is, we're going to him every time."