... This is only said due to an interesting revelation while buying a poinsetta for Sheila this morning. I was tempted to also buy one for the house here, thanks to a display table which screamed out "$4.99" for everything on the table.
Taking it to customer service, however, it was rang up as $12.99, which would have deflated the budget. Was the poinsetta misplaced? Absolutely not. It was just unfortunately placed inside a plain plastic holder with a snowman on it, which jumped the cost an unbelieveable seven dollars!
I have bought flowers in similiar plastic containers before (save the design), and they end up thrown out. How can a simple plastic part cost seven dollars extra? For a simple design? What happens to that part when the flower passes on? I don't see that as a prop to use year after year.
Watch the stock price of Rubbermaid jump up this winter as more unsuspecting customers try not to remove the poinsetta from anything it may be in. It's simply outrageous to me.
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Watch the links to the right in upcoming days for some new additions. I am a fan of pure cornball humor, and while waiting for Sheila to stop by this morning, Steve was reading a list of these outrageous statements that did earn good laughs out of me.
My joke-telling is simple. I cannot remember many of the long-storied ones that get good laughs out of everyone else; something always gets lost in translation. This does not mean I am a simple man, but harks back to my appreciation for the little things in life. It doesn't matter how you laugh; as long as you do, it's a little time in happiness, away from the "everyday".
