Refund, Baby

So now that I've inflated my own ego balloon let's take a more in-depth look at my behavior.  My thinking is pristine, my intentions faultless, my goals unassailable.  My actions?  Meh, don't look too close.

On our cruise I received a $500 ship credit if by "credit" you mean "I paid an extra $500 that was buried somewhere else in my fare."  Before we left on the cruise I booked a few shore excursions - guided hikes, mostly, for two city people who had absolutely no intention of wandering off into the Alaskan wilderness on trails that featured large signs at the trail head detailing what to do during a bear attack.  Most of them mentioned moose as well, astonishingly large animals - second in size on the North American continent only to a bison, whatever the fuck that is  - that can weigh close to 1500 lbs when fully dressed.  There was the occasional wolf reference as well.  I was a little afraid of the salmon so you can imagine the trepidation I felt considering a Seaweed-To-Beast confrontation with one of those other animals, toothy mammals, all.

Anyway, I booked these hikes and paid for them to ensure that we were guaranteed spots.  It is possible that there was some way to apply the shipboard credit to the bill but I didn't see it.  So once we were on the ship we spoke to some scrivener about applying the credit.  No problem.  I didn't believe this particular scrivener, being a paranoid cynic, so a few days later I snuck back down when he wasn't on duty and spoke to a lady scrivener.  She called up my account and confirmed the refund.

"$667 will be applied to your account," she said.

I didn't quibble with her.  I had no objection to that number.  I was keen to see that the number wasn't lower.  Higher was fine with me.  I didn't believe either of these people, anyway.  Since we were in Canada at that point I surmised that the refund was being applied in Canadian dollars.

When I got home there is was: $667 in good, old American dollars, taken right off my bill.

So, gentle readers, do I call attention to this?

Hmmmmm.