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How's everything?

You find what you need?  I mean my grocery store clerks are getting all philosophical on me.  I walked in last night for some 2% milk (rest was water - I know what a scam) and as I step up to pay - this high schooler with a name tag that said Samantha or Amber or some sap from a tree, wearing a rubber band and beads on her wrist goes - 'so did you find everything?' 

I was in the middle of a new story idea to blog about so I experimented with her.  About the idea I mean and she totally got rattled.   I told her I was among other things looking for intelligent life.

Another thing I have been observing in society is females who have this rubber band on their wrist and never know whether to wrap it around their hair that is oozing out of their skull or keep it on their wrist.  They seem to fidget with it in meetings and conversations.  I am not sure what's going on there.  I mean no other accessory gets this treatment - there is no one twirling their purse or wallet on their head and sticking it back in their pocket so why this particular item?

I did not have the heart to ask her about it while also wondering what happened to the other 98% of the fat in the milk which she could not have computed. I am sure if I gave her a calculator she would have it figured out instead she just blurted out - 'that will be $3.89 and you saved 10 cents today.'

This is another scam that you come across when shopping in America.  How you seem to save more than you can at your local bank by simply shopping more and more.  One day as I walked out of a clothing retailer I was greeted by the cashier at the end of the transaction with a cheery smile reserved for bad dates and intoning the words - why you saved $155 today - this was more than I paid for the pile of clothes and shoes and yet somehow I had figured out how to save that much.  Simply by spending I was saving.

So I must say everything is just alright with this world.  Esp since I had once heard that Jesus saves but I think I had beat him handily with my clever choices of purchasing clearance sales merchandise and out of fashion garment collection.
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  1. RajendraOctober 4, 2013 at 12:18 AM

    Guess I should start calculating my life savings differently, coz I mostly bought stuff at 'sales' in the U.S. I can also compute the present rupee value and feel good with a conversion rate of over Rs. 61 to a dollar.

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