How Bad...
Jul. 25th, 2010 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lsandersonAm I?
I went shopping at the Golden Valley Cub Foods, 'cause I'd heard they had Lean Cuisine on sale. In the Produce section, I found some priceless lychee nuts. Priceless because they were not labeled and had no price sticker visible. I asked the first and second (white) produce guys what they were priced at, and was hitting blank stares until an Asian walked by, who both knew what they were and what they should be priced at ($5.99). (I tend to hit a stutter with Asian fruit -- the rambutans and lychees go into the same brain bucket.) I asked if they'd know what they were at the checkout... Oh, they should the Asian guy said.
Of course, the typical American teenage checkout guy was completely clueless as to what they were and how much they charged. (He did ask me how much they were per pound -- but I gave him an answer of what they wuz and told him how it was spelled.) He couldn't find it and told me he was giving me a "real good price" -- $1.29 a pound as it turned out when I looked at the bill.
Once home, someone claims he doesn't eat 'em, and, on top of that, they're old... Still, not bad for $0.86
I also told the two cute guys in back of the BBQ meat counter that their T-bone sign, $0.99, was hosed, and one of them came back with "You should have bought a bunch..."
I went shopping at the Golden Valley Cub Foods, 'cause I'd heard they had Lean Cuisine on sale. In the Produce section, I found some priceless lychee nuts. Priceless because they were not labeled and had no price sticker visible. I asked the first and second (white) produce guys what they were priced at, and was hitting blank stares until an Asian walked by, who both knew what they were and what they should be priced at ($5.99). (I tend to hit a stutter with Asian fruit -- the rambutans and lychees go into the same brain bucket.) I asked if they'd know what they were at the checkout... Oh, they should the Asian guy said.
Of course, the typical American teenage checkout guy was completely clueless as to what they were and how much they charged. (He did ask me how much they were per pound -- but I gave him an answer of what they wuz and told him how it was spelled.) He couldn't find it and told me he was giving me a "real good price" -- $1.29 a pound as it turned out when I looked at the bill.
Once home, someone claims he doesn't eat 'em, and, on top of that, they're old... Still, not bad for $0.86
I also told the two cute guys in back of the BBQ meat counter that their T-bone sign, $0.99, was hosed, and one of them came back with "You should have bought a bunch..."
