Mo Money Mo Problems

I walk by this sign a lot and finally took a picture of it. Now that it's looking like we'll probably have a border relaxing Democrat in the White House, I think we'll all be needing a little Mexican insurance.

Yesterday I turned in all my receipts for the expenses accrued on the recent Ikea job, like food, gas, and supplies I had to buy. This morning I got a semi-angry call from my boss saying that I had included a receipt for a 24oz Sapporo Draft beer from 7-11. I said "Are you being serious?" and my boss said "Yes." I said "Do they even sell beer at 7-11?" and he said "Of course they do." I said "I don't know what happened. They must have given me the wrong receipt or something," and he said "I'm taking it out of the folder. Just make sure it doesn't happen again." So now my boss thinks that I drink the big 24oz cans of beer while on the clock and then try to get reimbursed for them.

Also on this job I had to buy a bunch of faceplates for light switches and outlets (which are apparently technically called "receptacles") that amounted to about $150, though we only ended up using about $18 worth. After the shoot I couldn't find the unused ones to return them, but when I asked the guy I thought might know where they were, he said "Oh I returned them for you." He then gave me 3 Home Depot Gift Cards. He said "One of these has your money on it. Just take them in and figure out which one is yours, and then give the other two back to me, because one of them has like 400 dollars on it that I'm going to use to remodel my kitchen."

So I took the gift cards in and priced them. One has $190 on it, one has $44 on it, and one has $0 on it. 190 is more than the initial purchase, but 44 dollars is $116 less. And it appears that $400 dollars of the other guy's money is missing.

I told my boss about the whole thing, and he said that I should just use all of the cards to buy a bunch of stuff from Home Depot to teach this guy a lesson about repaying people in Gift Cards.

But there are 2 catches. For one, if this guy thinks he has 400 dollars on one of the cards, and I say I spent all the cards, he thinks I've stolen 400 dollars from him. The second catch is that this guy is in a motorcycle "some call it a club, some call it a gang" called Los Vagos. So the question becomes do I assume that the 44 dollar card is mine and give the other two back, do I spend all of the money and tell this guy that my boss told me to, "and by the way the card you thought had a lot of money on it actually had no money on it, swear to god," or do I move out of California with no forwarding address? If I disappear, at least you guys will know the reason why.

Also, has anyone else seen this Taco Bell advertising campaign?:



Christians be lovin they Caramel Apple Empanadas!