A Real Pick Me Up

I was on the brink of one of my soon to be patented all-night late-nights – so I stopped on the way home at a little convenience store to get a big hot tea.

I know that I could have made tea at home – but I figured that at the store – they would have the one magic ingredient that my cupboard was missing . . . lemon. I was wrong – they were a lemon-free zone.

Any-hoo, I went in – it was slightly after 11:00 at night – and the place was surprisingly busy. I went over to the tea station – made my tea – and listened to some of the verbal shenanigans that were going on around me. Once the sugar was in and the tea was made – I went to the line and waited.

Are you wondering why I’m telling you this seemingly banal (“the state of being commonplace; something without freshness or originality, insipid”) story about nothing much more than nothing?? Well – then I am glad that you have made it this far – because here comes the payoff.

When I got to the front to pay, the bill came up to $1.42 (I had gotten the big big big size). I already had a dollar in my hand – but dug into my pocket to see if I had the change. I pulled out exactly 42 cents. I exclaimed “OH! Look . . . forty-two cents on the nose!” The cashier then – without breaking stride and in the best way I can imagine this line being delivered said “Yeah man. Ain’t nobody better than you – man . . .”

It was the greatest.

He gets a gold star.

Friday Photo – Merry Cherry

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Puffs with Vicks – Hooray!

Puffs Review
I was at the big store walking around the other day – and found myself mulling around the tissue aisle. Needless to say – I was pretty put out by how terrible the box designs were – but one thing did manage to tweak my interest in a moderately positive way. It was a box – sligtly unlike the other boxes . . .  it was almost like there was a slight glow – the glow of health and supremacy – coming from the box. I had to stop and investigate.

It was a box of Puffs plus . . . with Vicks. “They have gone too far!” I yelled in my head. “How many more things can they possibly add to a tissue?” I needled at myself. I then – while holding a box – looked at a lady – arched my eyebrow and said with measured incredulity “This is simply too much!” as I tossed the box back onto the shelf and went on my merry way. I am pretty sure that she agreed with me.

The only problem was that the gears, cogs and wheels in my head started spinning – as they often do with new products – and then I came to the conclusion that I needed to try them. So – on my way to the pencil factory – where we make the best pencils in the business – I picked up a box. My world has changed – yet again – this time for the better.

I love them so much. I just wave them around in the air – smelling the Vicks smell feeling my breathing get a tiny bit less constricted and getting slightly nauseous. Then – when it is actually time to use them – it is confusing bliss. The need to blow my nose gets all twisted up with the desire to breath in deep the aroma of health – and things get goopy. I am still working on the goopy part. I will overcome.

Next up will be tissues that have all of this stuff – but that are also connected to social networking sites – and that alert your doctor as to if you are sick and how sick you are – and that will call you a car service to go to the airport to get to the drier climates out west – where there are good prospects for hard working folk – and stuff like that. The future is coming – and ain’t she a beaut?!

Friday Photo – Close Up