Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Neiman-Marcus $250.00 cookie recipe for the taking
Let's let them have it! THIS IS A TRUE STORY!
My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus
Cafe In Dallas and we decided to have a small dessert. Because both of
us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the 'Neiman-Marcus cookie.'
It was So excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe, and
the waitress said with a small frown, 'I'm afraid not, but you can buy
The Recipe.' Well, I asked how much, and
she responded, ' Only two fifty - it's a Great deal!' I agreed
to that, and told her to just add it to my Tab.
Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and the
Neiman-Marcus Charge was $285.00!
I looked again, and I remembered I had only spent $9.95 for two
salads and about $20.00 for a scarf.
As I glanced at the bottom of the statement, it said,
'Cookie Recipe-$250.00.' That was outrageous! I called Neiman's
Accounting Department and told them the waitress said it was
'two-fifty', which clearly does not mean 'two hundred and fifty dollars'
by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase.
Neiman-Marcus refused to budge. They would not refund my money
because, according to them, 'What the waitress told you is not our
problem. You have already seen the Recipe. We absolutely will not refund
your money at this point.'
I explained to the Accounting Department lady the criminal
statutes which govern fraud in the State of Texas . I threatened to
report them to the Better Business Bureau and the Texas Attorney
General's office for engaging in fraud.. I was basically told, 'Do what
you want. Don't bother thinking of how you can get even, and don't
bother trying to get any of your money back.' I just said, Okay, you
folks got my $250, and now I'm going to have $250 worth of fun. I told
her that I was going to see to it that every Cookie Lover in the United
States with an e-mail account has a $250 cookie recipe from
Neiman-Marcus...for free. She replied, 'I wish you wouldn't do this.' I
said, 'Well, perhaps you should have thought of that before you ripped
me off and slammed down the phone.
So here it is!
Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly
think of.
I paid $250 for this, and I don't want Neiman-Marcus to EVER
make
another penny off of this recipe!
NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved)
2 cups butter
24 oz. Chocolate chips
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp. Soda (baking)
1 tsp. Salt
2 cups sugar
1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
5 cups blended oatmeal
4 eggs
2 tsp. Baking powder
2 tsp. Vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream
the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together
with
flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda . Add chocolate
chips,
hershey bar, and nuts. Roll into balls, and place two inches
apart
on a cookie Sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.
Makes 112 cookies.
PLEASE READ THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY
PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS!
THIS IS REALLY TERRIFIC!!
Even if the people on your e-mail list don't eat sweets send it
to
them and ask them to pass it on. Let's make sure we get this
ladies $250.00 worth. Enjoy the cookies, they really are good.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
a mothers love for ariel all grown up
Although you have read my blog about my daughter and her incident I did not get to express my feelings about the situation. Those who were around my daughter repeatedly asked her if they could call her mom, (ME).To my hearbroken surprise she told them NO. She did not want to bother or disturb me. When walking into the hotel there were lifeguards, paramedics, the fire rescue personnel, my daughters best friend Stephanie and her boyfriend dave along with daves mother. the feeling of being alone is so overwhelming there are no words that can be placed on the sorrow I felt. Here I was the mother of this sick child and I was the last person who was called to the scene. For this I feel failure in teaching my children important contact information through the years. For this I feel I am not a good mother. But most of all for this I feel that she does not trust my judgment and does not want me to be there when she is sick or hurting,. Now I am the one hurting inside. NO medic, rescue team or friend can mend a mothers broken heart. The person who can mend it is the only person who broke it. We parents do so much for our families and in their lives. We rarely ask for anything in return. But to be disregarded, disrespected and notified last about your childs immediate medical care, well; the care of our childrens health makes being a mom obsolete. The one thing all moms know that we can fix with a smile, a bandage or a soft rock back and forth are no longer options for healing the wounds of our children, It sometimes seems we try to hold onto our children longer by letting them know how much we do love and care about them. I guess my days of being a mom are gone. I am sorry to see them go. They were some of the best years of my life and I will cherish them forever.
Thanks for the Memories.
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