For the Heck of it!

We haven’t visited the butcher shop since May 26 (I date things before I put them in the freezer) and our freezer was becoming pretty bare. I made a big list and called in our order and hubby went and picked it up. Among other things I had ordered 2 chuck roasts. When we were unpacking and labeling the meat and putting in the freezer we found that we had 3 roasts instead of 2.

Hubby mentioned that the check-out lady thought we were missing a roast when she rang up the order and ran to the back and brought out another roast. We only paid for 2 but we wound up with 3.

I called first thing this morning and let them know what happened and that we owed them for one roast. The lady was very nice and said not to worry about it and that we didn’t owe for it. I thanked her and told her that we really appreciated it.

Even if I had had the slightest inkling to keep quiet about the extra roast I certainly would not have, especially with this meat market. Several months ago my mother-in-law and I went into the shop to buy some meat and my MIL left a bank envelope on the counter with about $50.00 in it. I don’t remember now how they tracked us down. Oh yeah, I do remember. I had called in an order that time too and they still had the list with our phone number on it. They called and asked if we were missing an envelope with money in it. I thought that was very nice and extremely rare that they would go through the trouble to track us down to return the money. I don’t think many people would do that in this day and age.

If you live in or near southeast Tampa and don’t know about Apollo Meats you don’t know what you’re missing. We really love that butcher shop and haven’t bought meat at the grocery store in a few years now. We bought several of the $1.50 bacon wrapped tenderloins with our latest order and I’ll be broiling a few tonight. Yum.