Does anybody here still read Reader's Digest? Sort of on the line of "All in a Day's Work" humor column in the Reader's Digest. Sort of in the interest of keeping people's spirits up.
Sort of in keeping with that old saw, "misery shared is halved; joys shared, multiplied".
Let's try to keep it appropriate to MSing, or at least enough to keep it from being transferred into chat, OK?
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I had half a dozen items on my grocery list yesterday, all very inexpensive, so all would fit in the normal reimbursement. I got a head of lettuce, a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs. No toilet paper (of course!), and rationing signs in various departments --bread, soaps, paper towels, etc. Last item was a bag of tortillas.
I'm standing in the checkout line and the clerk darts out from behind the register, grabs the tortillas and bread, and tells me I have to put one back.
Dummy me, I asked why?
"They are both bread products. Didn't you see the signs?"
"Well, yes, I did. I saw the signs on the bread case. The tortillas weren't in the bread aisle. And besides, I've never thought of corn being bread."
"Cornbread," she stated, flatly. "Haven't you ever heard of cornbread?"
D'oh.
I put back the tortillas.
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You?