Sometimes I feel like I just can't win...

One of the things the girlfriend asked if I'd do today was to go shopping. We came up with a bit of a list, mostly just the basics and a few things that I thought would go a long way on not too much money (like beans and pasta). She left me $20 which she had budgeted for groceries, but after a few additions, she went ahead and left another $20 just in case it was more than $20 total.

So, between periods of the first hockey game of the day, I headed off to Kroger to pick stuff up. I got pretty much everything on the list, trying to keep the spending down to a minimum. In all, it wound up being right around $30. Instead of breaking the other $20 bill she gave me, I went ahead and paid part of it with ten bucks that I've had in my wallet for a few weeks.

She got home a little bit ago and saw the $20 I left on the counter. I told her that, yes, I'd gone to get groceries. "Oh, it was all under $20?" she asked. So I told her that I just used the extra money I had to pay for it. And now she's pissed that I spent the money that she wanted me to keep for emergencies. I told her I could go ahead and just use one of my credit cards in case of an actual emergency, but she said that she wanted to avoid using those. So do I, but if it's an emergency, I don't think it really matters all that much if I have to pay a little interest. Anyway, we live together, and all the money pretty much goes to the same places regardless of whether it's originally mine or hers, so what difference does it make? I should have just lied and told her it was all under $20... Sigh...