Visited Mom for Mother's Day this weekend, and we went to Kohl's so I could buy a pair of Skechers sneakers. When they didn't have my size at the first location, the nice shoe department lady called the other location in the next town and asked them to hold the shoes for me.
We arrived at the other location and after shopping around for a bit, Mom found a blouse and some sandals, and I had a pair of black pants and the sneakers.
When we got to the checkout, the clerk removed the plastic security tag thingy from my sneakers, scanned in Mom's blouse, sandals, and my pants, but he somehow forgot to scan the sneakers.
Being an honest sort of person but accepting a windfall when I can get it, I noticed right away but didn't say anything. I hurried Mom out of the store, excited to be getting $60 worth of free sneakers.
Until later, that was. Dad said what I did wasn't right, my girlfriend said she would have said something right away, and I realized I did a shitty thing. The clerk that rung me up wouldn't have been penalized, since he never actually scanned the sneakers. It would have turned up eventually missing from inventory I suppose. Still. Shitty.
But I thought that maybe he *might* get in trouble, or the nice ladies that helped me in both shoe departments would get bitched out for having a $60 missing pair of sneakers.
That night, before we went to bed, I told Mom we had to go back and pay for the sneakers. I felt guilty as hell.
After I got to the store and explained what had happened to the customer service lady, she gave me 30% off for coming back. Mom already had a 30% off coupon so the additional discount wouldn't apply, but it was nice for her to offer anyway.
So there you are, Internet. Proof that there still are some honest people in the world, even though it took me a few extra hours to realize it. I promise to do better next time.