Keeping Score

The past couple of weekends when I have traveled to Capt's house to visit, I have noticed that he has been out of paper towels.

On Sunday (at my suggestion) he left me his debit card, gave me his password and gave me a shopping list so I could do his food shopping while he was at work.

Oh the fun I could have had.

One of the items I picked up was a 12 pack of paper towels. I got them on sale at Shaw's.

So, when he came home later that day I was all excited to show him the 12 rolls of Scott's paper towels that I got him for $7.99 when I realized that I inadvertantly left them in the shopping cart when I was loading up the car.

"I've got great news Capt, I got you a great deal on paper towels. The only problem is that I'm not used to having checkers bag the food AND put the bags in my cart, so since I never put anything under the cart, I didn't realize they were there and I left without them. Sorry." (On Long Island, you have to do it all yourself.)

[laughing] "That's. just. great. Babe. You saved me money.... it only cost me $7.99 AND I still don't have any paper towels."

[Thinking about how to turn this around] "Um, don't forget that time when I bought a container of joint compound at Home Depot last summer and YOU left it under the cart....so therefore, I consider THIS incident a total wash."

-Oh Yes, it's been awhile but I still have the sacred, female, 'keeping the score' skill intact!

Not that it is a good thing, but do any of you 'keep score' in your relationships?