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besubversiveThis is how much:
A couple of weeks ago, I was at the supermarket and noticed they had blueberries at the salad bar. I thought nothing of it, other than, "Ooh, I love blueberries. If I wasn't in a hurry I would make a fruit salad with them." Later, however, I started thinking about how the salad bar costs $3.99 per pound. And how blueberries the way you usually buy them are insanely expensive. I did the math and was amazed.
I started looking at the salad bar whenever I stopped in to rent a movie or grab a few things, but I hadn't seen the blueberries again. When the last circular came out, I learned that pints of them were going on sale, and I correctly guessed they would show up on the bar. Tonight they were there!! You better believe I bought a whole pound, and I gloated internally thinking of how other, less frugal folks were paying $5 for 8.8 ounces, while I paid $4 for 16. That kind of saving just about gets me off.
Seriously, don't be surprised if I give you hard candy out of my purse, pat you on the head, and call you a Nice Young Man. I am a GRANDMA.
And if that didn't make my night, the next thing sure did. I tried to rent American Gangster from the movie machine, but the title was missing from the selection. Since I had to rethink my movie choice, I stepped aside to let a woman behind me use it. She had reserved her movie ahead of time, on the internet, I guess, so it went real fast. As she was finishing up, she said to me, "Were you trying to rent American Gangster? I reserved it earlier, but I seem to have done it twice, so the machine just gave me two copies. Want one?" I promised her I would get it back before 9PM tomorrow and offered her a dollar (since that's what it cost her), but she waved me off. What luck!
A couple of weeks ago, I was at the supermarket and noticed they had blueberries at the salad bar. I thought nothing of it, other than, "Ooh, I love blueberries. If I wasn't in a hurry I would make a fruit salad with them." Later, however, I started thinking about how the salad bar costs $3.99 per pound. And how blueberries the way you usually buy them are insanely expensive. I did the math and was amazed.
I started looking at the salad bar whenever I stopped in to rent a movie or grab a few things, but I hadn't seen the blueberries again. When the last circular came out, I learned that pints of them were going on sale, and I correctly guessed they would show up on the bar. Tonight they were there!! You better believe I bought a whole pound, and I gloated internally thinking of how other, less frugal folks were paying $5 for 8.8 ounces, while I paid $4 for 16. That kind of saving just about gets me off.
Seriously, don't be surprised if I give you hard candy out of my purse, pat you on the head, and call you a Nice Young Man. I am a GRANDMA.
And if that didn't make my night, the next thing sure did. I tried to rent American Gangster from the movie machine, but the title was missing from the selection. Since I had to rethink my movie choice, I stepped aside to let a woman behind me use it. She had reserved her movie ahead of time, on the internet, I guess, so it went real fast. As she was finishing up, she said to me, "Were you trying to rent American Gangster? I reserved it earlier, but I seem to have done it twice, so the machine just gave me two copies. Want one?" I promised her I would get it back before 9PM tomorrow and offered her a dollar (since that's what it cost her), but she waved me off. What luck!
