i go to the grocery and i get home an i'm just nuts.

-----Original Message-----
From: Betty B [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:51 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Question


In a message dated 02/16/2001 1:38:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Paige,
>
>  Sorry,  Thursday was pension day, and I was busy spending the peanuts
>  the Australian Government so generously throw at me.  Speaking of
>  spending; I was at the checkout of the supermarket, and the checkout
>  girl was putting the items thru the scanner.  She weighed a bag of
>  mixed nuts (I buy nuts with my peanuts!), and rang them up as brazil
>  nuts.  At which point I said no, they're mixed nuts not brazil nuts,
>  thinking, silly girl's going to over charge me.  She spent five
>  minutes trying to cancel the transaction, nothing but beeps and pings
>  coming from the register, the line growing behind me, she eventually
>  gets her supervisor, the transaction is corrected to mixed nuts, and
>  it turns out that brazil nuts are cheaper than mixed nuts by TWO
>  dollars a kilo!!!!
>  Does this qualify me as idiot of the week??
>  Rayna
>

Not unless you got home with brazil nuts.

Betty
aut viam inveniam aut faciam
"I will either find a way or make one."