Don't cry over spilled milk!

Yes, I've finally gathered enough info to give you the second installment of the Spilled Milk Saga. (In case you missed Part 1, look here.)

When last I posted on this topic, my clothes and knitting things were covered in milk, and the Barnes and Noble manager had promised to reimburse me with a gift card for damages. I received the estimate from the dry cleaners on Thursday, the day after the spillage and the day before I left for the conference in DC. It would have paid for, let's say, a medium-priced knitting book. I received a gift card from the manager and told him I was still working on the fate of my knitting and my knitting bag (which he was pretty sure would be irreparably damaged).

I picked up my clothing from the dry cleaners on Tuesday (before Thanksgiving) and noted that while my knit top and corduroy pants were fine, my beloved corduroy blazer (with a shiny purple lining, the best part!!) still had crusty milky bits in it! That was definitely quite annoying, and worth a call to B&N.

I meant what I said about milking this for all it's worth, folks.

I called the B&N guy and told him about the jacket and its value. He asked about the milk-covered knitting bag, which he thought had looked totally ruined. I explained that yes, I washed it and it still had milk in it, and gave him the value of the materials I'd used to make it. (I didn't tell him that it's actually fine, but since he was so certain it would be ruined, I figured... as far as he knows, it's ruined, right?) The knitting I'd been doing was actually OK, so I didn't include that in the total.

The end result is that another gift card is on hold for me, worth about 2-3 more knitting books. My birthday is this Sunday - I think I just might enhance my book stash, courtesy of B&N!

As they say, "don't cry over spilled milk" - especially if it brings one knitting books! There's no crying here, that's for sure!