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February 16, 2006

Supermarket Sweep- Ghetto Style!

Yesterday on my way to lunch, Laura's husband called me and alerted me to the fact the ghetto Key Foods on Court Street was closing and having a one day 50% off sale. Everything was on sale- the entire goddamn stinky store! The store literally stinks and everything in the meat department is freezer-burned and dripping with blood. I've also bought (unbeknownst to me at the time) moldy cheese and expired tortillas there. But, come on, half off! People were going crazy, myself included. I got that possessed feeling again, similar to the one I get when I step into Ikea, Target, dollar stores, and thrift stores. When a large variety of things are cheap or on sale, I become a shopping monster. My eyes turn into laser beams, I become unnaturally focused, and my debit cart begs for mercy. I didn't think that there would be much left by the time we arrived, but there was. It was like a fucked up version of Supermarket Sweep (a show you can still catch if you're lucky on PAX, the Christian channel). There weren't enough carts so people were carrying as much as they could in their hands or milk crates or whatever they had available. Old people roamed the isles looking for canned goods, while the young ones went for the good stuff, i.e. the beer. Suffice it to say our pantry is now brimming with six-packs of weird beer (He'brew anyone?) and bulk packages of toilet paper.

After that exhausting excursion, we just plopped down in front of the TV to watch the Winter Olympics and right then and there, it struck me- the Winter Olympics suck. This article from the Washington Post sums it up very well and is really worth a look:

Where the Rich and Elite Meet to Compete

Posted by debbie at February 16, 2006 12:45 PM

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Posted by: vince at March 11, 2006 3:40 PM