Sold out Book covers....

So the kids have only been in school for three days and the teachers are demanding that they have these book covers or more commonly known as "book sox" to cover their books. The simplest thing had turned out to be a huge pain in the rear. Every store that we had checked was sold completely out. From town to town , across the county ....sold out. Our local walmart ordered 3600 of these book sox and they flew off the shelves. We thought we may have got lucky at a dollar store. There was a huge line of people waiting to get into the store, so hubby says "Oh maybe they have book sox and are waiting for the store to open!" . He walks up to this lady and asked her "excuse me are you waiting for the store to open? we were hoping they are selling book sox here. we have looked everywhere." The lady burst into laughter and says "No we are waiting for interviews, you can go in and look for your book sox" Omg talk about hilarious! We went inside and headed straight to the school supplies and again no such luck, sold out. By this time we had already been to 3 stores and we were getting hungry and frustrated. If its so important for the kids to have them, then the school needs to provide them. This was ridiculous and a waste of time. So off to the next town we go looking again but no luck. Finally as a last resort we check staples, wow they wanted $4.99 for these things. That was crazy considering walmart sold them for only .80 cents. There was no way we were paying that price. We decided that we were at the end of our rope and went for some lunch. While there , hubby was telling the waitress of our book sox adventure and she tells us she knows a place that sells them and casually adds "but don't' tell anyone else, I need to buy my kids 10 more". Sure who are we going to tell .. strange lady. Now at this secret place buying book soxs, we tell the cashier, " the lady at said restrantant says she is coming in to buy 10 ". Funniest thing ever, the cashier says .. oh I know who you mean! Hubby says well if you start running low , put some of them back for her.

I swear when next year rolls around , I am stocking up on book soxs and saving myself some time. Hubby says we should sell them to the neighborhood kids at 3 bux a cover .