So we go to Hyvee (Iowa’s employee owned grocery store) to return pop cans and bottles – one of those little rooms off the store where you insert your can/bottle into the mouth of the crusher and collect your pay slip which you take to the courtesy counter for your savings account money aka bottle deposit. HyVee keeps the little room very neat and tidy but I don’t like to set my purse on the floor while I”m feeding the machine…so I hung it over the spout of the little sink in the room. An employee comes in to empty one of the machines, sees my purse and says – oh honey, that is one of those automatic faucets…you might want to move your purse in case it turns on. “he” promptly grabs my purse for me – and he and I both think to ourselves – whew that was lucky. You so totally know where I”m going here, don’t you.
So we walk out of the little room onto the sidewalk and I feel a drip running down my leg…$*!#&^(#$@! My purse holds water. It was half full of water..just sitting there soaking into my cell phone, my checkbook, my 2-year calendar and all of the other useless, important things I carry in my purse. There in the parking lot of the grocery store, I take everything out of my purse – thank goodness, I’m past tampons – and pour the water out of the purse …*(*$#&*)(….. I was in a foul mood for the rest of the night – if I had done something like that and thought – I probably shouldn’t do that because…… I would have chalked it up to listening to my instincts and laughed it off – but for some reason this really pissed me off…
Note to self…….
Ninasusan 
I’m sorry it happened to you , but it is pretty funny the way you described it , I know it was just a mess with all the valubles one carries in a purse to be ruined SORRY hope it gets better for ya ONE OF THOSE DAYS hugh?
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How aggravating!
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I would have been pissed too. The water in the purse wouldn’t have been the problem, it would have just been the destruction of my stuff. ergh. Stay dry!
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I am still in shocked to learn that somewhere out there is a Hy-Vee that will take your bottles. We have to go to a redemption center. Only Wal-Mart will take bottles so I have to chose between convenience or boycotting the evil union busters. Usually I stick to the boycott but not always.
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yikes. yup too bad you didn’t have those tampons in there for that emergency. I used to put my purse down everywhere and many times leaving it in the car overnight. I had to revert to a long strapped purses. then I fling it over my shoulder cross wise and I never have to put it down and worry about it. hope the phone dries out… don’t turn it on until it does and use a hairdryer on it. son been there done that before.
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Oh, no! And then think of all the times you WANT the darn things to come on and have to entice them with fancy hand signs…double GRRR!
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. Imagine the tampons! That blows though – I understand your annoyance.
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Its too bad that you are past the tampon stage of your life….have you seen the latest femeine hygene/tampon/maxie pad ads? Those suckers can save a town from a collapsing water tower!
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