I came to Lopez from Seattle on Saturday and stopped at the Haggen supermarket in Burlington to get three four packs of Fever Tree tonic and a Party Size (same price as usta was but shrink-flated to 13 oz from 16) I was using a small cart.
I pulled into a checkout lane with the light on without looking to see the size of the checkout basket in front of me.
When I did notice what was in process I commented to the young woman who had assembled it that I would have guessed that it was impossible to get that much stuff in one of those carts - it was the big size cart, not svelte like mine.
We laughed and her check out continued.
When the last item passed through the register the clerk chirped cheerily "seven hundred forty three".
Without skipping a beat, the young woman fished two credit cards out of her wallet and told the clerk she was doing three hundred on card one.
Having completed that, and readying the use of the second, the clerk said "four forty-three and change".
"Change?"
"Twenty-seven cents".
The card was tapped and life went on at Haggen.
I couldn't help but ponder the Seattle City Light bill I had paid before leaving Seattle; it was double what it had been a year before.
I don't know.
Gas in Oklahoma is really cheap, though.
donnie always tells us that when he is describing our new golden lives.
Good for them.
The Oklahomans.
Maybe I'll drive down there for a tankful.
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