Asda and other things!

   Well contrary to popular belief .. well those that I told anyway ... We did not go to get cultured yesterday! Apparently staying up too late the night before and basically not getting up rendered that impossible ...So , once we eventually got up and organised ourselves for the day we went to the dump! Oh no I hear you cry! Never fear it was clearly a journey which was very much needed! After unloading our rubbish we decided to go and get  a few 'essentials' namely some grass seed,some trousers and a web cam.
   First stop was Homebase, grass seed bought we left one car park for another one arriving at our local Asda Superstore. I looked in vain for trousers that might perform the miracle of pulling in all my wobbly baby bits and making me as tall and slender as Elle Macpherson. Alas there were none. surprisingly!! Still we found the webcam and grabbed a Guardian and a couple of those awful magazines that everyone reads but no one admits to reading and headed off to the till.
   As you may or may not know Asda are promoting their 'Price Guarantee' vouchers system at the moment, frankly if you haven't heard of it you are either blind or living in another universe, which of course is possible apologies if this is you ;0). I had diligently followed the instructions for a few weeks now and have been printing out the vouchers and presenting them to the checkout operator for the past few weeks. Even though it tells you' its easy' just add a 'few numbers' (there are a list of numbers and until you work the receipt out takes a little time counting zero's is the worst bit!).
  The checkout operator, a lady of a certain age wearing reading glasses on the end of her nose and a cardigan, pushed the goods through the till and gave me the price. I smiled as my husband packed, he is very good like that, and handed her the vouchers I had worked so hard to get in my grubby little hands, and she refused them! Apparently, although it says nothing of this on the voucher, one has to buy food or 'comparable goods' to use them . Of course we paid her the money and saved the vouchers for next time. But it did lead me to wonder what in fact 'comparable goods' were and how they would claim to know that we hadn't bought anything that compared to the web-cam, bread, newspaper and chocolate bar. Surely if the voucher was to be taken from goods in their store any goods would be voucherable (which is not a word but should be). I envisaged the till fairies sitting checking the receipts against the following receipts and collating the evidence then sending in the voucher police!
  In my opinion a voucher is a voucher .. why give it terms? I can understand a 'best before' date but is it really  that important for me to buy 'comparable goods' on a weekly basis? I think not!