Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Out and About...

... and back again.  Went over to The Big(ger) City™ to pick up a new pair of readers and found they gave me the wrong strength once I got home... me bein' too stoopid to check the case while I was in my optometrist's office.  It's always frickin' sumthin' and I HATE it when that sumthin' is a self-inflicted wound.

Stopped at Wally-World to pick up a few things and spent at least three minutes standing with mouth agape in the cookie aisle.  Here's me, wantin' a bag o' chocolate chip cookies... preferably Chips Ahoy... and I'm confronted with NINE different varieties of Chips Ahoy.  Nine: Chewy, Gooey, Cashew, white fudge, and Gawd Only Knows what else.  It took me a minute to find a bag o' "Originals," seein' as how they only had three left and those were all jammed waaaay in the back, on the bottom shelf.

Sometimes I think we have too much choice in these United States.  But I like it.

I ran into Buddy... the proprietor o' Beautiful La Hacienda Trailer Park... on my way out this morning and this conversation ensued:
Buddy:  Mornin'!  Say... could ya do me a favor?
Me:  Sure!  What's up?
Buddy:  Could you look up Obama's address on your computer fer me?
Me: Sure... but... ummm... why?
Buddy:  Coz I wanna send him all our senior citizens' bills if he holds up those Social Security checks...
Heh.  "Good ideer," sez I.

And now it's off to make the rounds...

8 comments:

  1. I thought everyone knew 1600 Pennsylvania Ave

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  2. http://staff.fcps.net/tcarr/shortstory/fun.htm

    This if for after you've read about Borders closing on the Shoebox blog

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  3. "...I think we have too much choice..."

    Unless you shop at Costco. They keep changing the choices available.

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  4. I like choice, but I'm not big on the old Chips Ahoy cookies no matter what they do to them. I will eat them if there is no other choice :)

    I really hate when I've been buying the same item at Wal-Mart for years. Then one day, they just quit selling it. GRRR!

    WV: bickm - sounds like bitchin' and bickerin' together.

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  5. Skip: I'm sure he knew the address, it was just a conversational gambit.

    cladd: Thanks for that!

    Skip II: I only wish I had a Costco nearby...

    Lou: Homemade is best when it comes to cookies, but ya know how THAT goes...

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  6. Those cookies are good, but hard to beat an RC cola and a Moon Pie or the other southern delicacy, Oreo cookies and a big old Grapette belly wash.
    Now I'm hungry!

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  7. You must try Oreo balls. Ground-up oreos, rolled into small balls and dipped in white chocolate. Like crack.

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  8. Ooooh... that sounds delicious!

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