I didn't know whether to spit or swear!

I went back to the department store today where I saw the computer I wanted at the best price. Before going in, I went to a bookstore and got a couple of books on Windows Vista. Then off I went to choose a new printer and buy the computer.

THEY DIDN'T HAVE MY ONE IN STOCK EVEN IN THE WAREHOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could order it - when the warehouse got them back in, but not today, and it would be a week to 10 days at least.

So I went to Currys.Digital - part of the same group as PC World, for my non-UK readers, the people who tried to screw me over price and quality yesterday. They had the lower spec machine at the higher price, too, and would only take off £50. Plus they'd have to order it, too. What is more, the printer I'd selected was £40 more than in the department store.

So I bought the printer in the department store, and then zoomed off to another branch of PC World to try my luck at barter with a different manager.

Success - but in an unexpected way. They wouldn't reduce the lower spec model but found the better one - the one that I really wanted - in their business catalogue. So I became a business (they are usually quite good about teachers getting things at competitive prices in their stores). They still have to order it in, but reckon only a couple of days.

Now all I have to worry about is that when they asked for a company name, I gave them the name of my teaching agency. I actually have a company name from a tax-saving wheeze a couple of the teaching agencies use, but I didn't think of using it.

Should I tell the agency, or hope they never find out? To be fair, if I'd been employed by a school, I could have used their name legitimately, so I suppose it's all right. If not - next post will be from jail...