You know what it's like, the day after Thanksgiving, so what do you do? Head to the stores in search of great deals, or something like that. You probably headed off to Macy's, Harvey Nic's and Tiffany's to find a great bargain. Me? Brookshires and Walmart to find cut price rib roasts. You see, what happens is this. After Thanksgiving these place discount all their leftover roasts and you can snap 'em up cheap. Good call, right?
No, epic fail. All the affordable roasts were missing, someone must have looted them, so I contented myself with Walmart's own brand "Sliced Swiss," it's not bad, stupidly cheap white wine, also not bad, and what claimed to be free range eggs, along with some 90 cent candles.
Black Friday foray over, I fell back to the Compound to contemplate the mission. Yes, a success, but what if I'd bought beef? Failure and bankruptcy, and here's the thing. 47 keeps telling us the economy's booming, how very awesome and I'm sure it is. But why, then, is the cost of groceries up, and up, and up? Like beef, which has what, tripled in price? And everything else.
It's as though there's a financial gap between White House pronouncements and life as we live. To put it simply, we're not getting any more money and everything costs more. I put this to Ma LSP and she replied, ever sharp, "You do understand the people saying these things don't actually buy groceries." Well yes, there is that.
Who knows, perhaps tariffs, abolishing income tax and deporting millions of third world welfare savages will provide relief. Regardless, maybe next week's a better time to check for discounts.
Vaguely on topic, can any of you recommend an air pistol for backyard plinking/pest control? Serious question.
Your Pal,
LSP
