Change Anyone?

Today I was getting ready to go on a weekend retreat and I thought it would be nice to bake some cookies for everyone. Most of the ingredients I had, but not all. Not wanting to spend any money I decided to dump out my change jar and take that to the store. Most stores these days have one of these machines you can dump your change into and it gives you a receipt of how much you dumped into the machine and then you can use that to buy your items. Thinking I would be able to use that great invention at the store so away I went with a very heavy purse. Upon entering the store I immediately started looking for this change machine thing. Well it was just my luck this store did not have one of these machines. Now what? As I walked around grabbing the few things on my list I began calculating what to do with this change. I decided that if worse came to worse I could swipe my debt card and put the change into the bank tomorrow. Walking up to the checkout lines I noticed that the self serve lines were completely empty. This is something I have never seen before at this busy store. So, I decided to picked the checkout right in front of the helper people that stand there…staring at you. What Was I Thinking?!? My total came to 15 dollars and some odd cents. Looking up and around I noticed that I was still all alone in the self checkout lines. So I put my purse down and selected cash for my payment. Yep, I started adding my money in one coin at a time. At first I felt very self conscience but, no one else was in line so I was not holding anyone up. Quarter, quarter, dime, quarter, nickel, dime, dime...does this thing take pennies? I better not try just in case it goofs things up. Keep feeding, keep feeding, keep feeding…. All of a sudden I started to get the giggles and I couldn’t stop. Now this is not what I wanted to happen. I had already drawn attention to myself by paying my entire bill with change and now I am giggling…all by myself…oh and ….right in front of the helper people who might now be wondering what I am on. Oh the joy of doing something different. I left the store so full of joy I could hardly contain it. If this is a prelude to this weekend retreat…Bring It On Lord!!!