I went to the grocery store today. I wanted to buy some grapes. I was looking at the really dark grapes, the "black globe grapes" to see if they were seedless.
Indeed, they were seedless. So I checked the price, being penny-wise and pound-foolish. Alas, these lovely grapes were $1.99 per pound while the others ranged from $.99-$1.49.
Nevertheless, let it not be said that a penny-wise girl can't learn something worth far, far more the pennies she'd saved.
This grocery store has descriptions of their produce items under the prices. Under red delicious apples, for instance, it might say, "Crisp, sweet, unsuitable for cooking." Under roma tomatoes it could say, "Also called plum tomatoes. Sweeter than most tomatoes."
But guess what the grapes' announcement said. "These particular grapes are seedless, so they are guaranteed to be delicious."
Well! I would have been excited and skipping around the store except that I didn't understand how the state of being seedless automatically led to the state of being delicious. I still don't understand.
I think I need to spend either more or less time at the grocery store.
And the grocery store had changed it's hours to 24 hours a day. They had these little, red, sticky-out-y things that had the number 24 in white. Now that I think about it, I don't know if they have a web site where you can order stuff or if the store really has changed their hours.
Note to people responsible for little red signs: I only saw the 24.
Posted by dotty at September 27, 2003 09:48 PM