what did you do this tuesday night?
i'll tell you what i did. so, i had picked up the express today and had discovered a $2 coupon off cosi sandwiches or salads contained therein. so after sitting around my apartment for a while this evening, i remembered this fact at about 9:00. so i decided that i would walk around my neighborhood and empty out all the remaining expresses in the area to get their coupons.
see, i love cosi sandwiches and salads. but i am cheap. it's fair to say. and when you spend $8 for them, well you feel a bit put out. but when you pay $6, then you feel ok. i like me a good savings!
so i left my apartment. i live right across from the MCI center, an arena at which some sort of event was just letting out. and i live in a neighbhorhood where about 99% of people out at this time are going to a nice dinner or a bar or maybe returning home from their days at work. the other 1% is homeless. and then there is me. i was clearly in my pajamas, not wearing a bra, and wearing shorts that when you have thighs like mine, are borderline indecent. i actually felt a bit inappropriate wandering around. but i had not known that this trip would be as lengthy as it was. or as populated.
but that did not deter me in my mission. the problem was that i live in a very heavily traveled area. so i walked around about 10 neighborhood blocks, only to find 2 papers left! with every empty box i saw, my efforts seemed more fruitless and my heart sank just a bit.
but then i remembered a bin that sat behind my old office building, about 8 blocks away, and thru a fairly deserted and sketchy area. but i was not to be deterred! there were savings out there! just waiting for me!
so off i went. but better than that! just a block into this journey, and while i was still in perfectly legit territory, i discovered a bin of them, partially obscured behind a tree and on a side of a street probably not heavily traversed by people on their way to work. but it gets even better! the door was broken on it! so you had to make a sincere effort to get out your paper. well other people in a hurry to get to work don't make an effort. but laura, seeing tens of dollars worth of savings behind that broken door, oh she makes an effort.
i figure that i look like someone who was actually pictured in the paper today and was picking up copies for everyone i knew. or at least a good friend of someone pictured in the paper today. probably those two wrestling squirrels featured on page 9.
also, i am the kind of person who stops when she sees something shiny on the ground. if it is change, even a penny, i pick it up. the evidence gathered this evening shows that in my neighborhood, shiny things that catch your eye on the ground are generally just spit.
and actually, it got even better before i got to my apartment. now i truly know that god loves me. i decided i would check my mail box. do you know what was in there? A COUPON BOOK! for mcdonalds, granted. but i can now 2 free 32 oz soft drinks! and 20 piece orders of chicken mcnuggets for $3.29! and any breakfast sandwich for 99cents! i mean, those prices are a steal!
ok, so now i am debating going back out and getting the rest of the papers from that bin. actually, i do not know how to recycle in my building, or if it is possible. so now i am thinking about cutting the coupons out of the papers i have, returning them to the bins and hoping that when they re-fill the bins in the morning, they pick up the remnants of yesterday and recycle them. this sounds like an evening well-spent.
see, i love cosi sandwiches and salads. but i am cheap. it's fair to say. and when you spend $8 for them, well you feel a bit put out. but when you pay $6, then you feel ok. i like me a good savings!
so i left my apartment. i live right across from the MCI center, an arena at which some sort of event was just letting out. and i live in a neighbhorhood where about 99% of people out at this time are going to a nice dinner or a bar or maybe returning home from their days at work. the other 1% is homeless. and then there is me. i was clearly in my pajamas, not wearing a bra, and wearing shorts that when you have thighs like mine, are borderline indecent. i actually felt a bit inappropriate wandering around. but i had not known that this trip would be as lengthy as it was. or as populated.
but that did not deter me in my mission. the problem was that i live in a very heavily traveled area. so i walked around about 10 neighborhood blocks, only to find 2 papers left! with every empty box i saw, my efforts seemed more fruitless and my heart sank just a bit.
but then i remembered a bin that sat behind my old office building, about 8 blocks away, and thru a fairly deserted and sketchy area. but i was not to be deterred! there were savings out there! just waiting for me!
so off i went. but better than that! just a block into this journey, and while i was still in perfectly legit territory, i discovered a bin of them, partially obscured behind a tree and on a side of a street probably not heavily traversed by people on their way to work. but it gets even better! the door was broken on it! so you had to make a sincere effort to get out your paper. well other people in a hurry to get to work don't make an effort. but laura, seeing tens of dollars worth of savings behind that broken door, oh she makes an effort.
i figure that i look like someone who was actually pictured in the paper today and was picking up copies for everyone i knew. or at least a good friend of someone pictured in the paper today. probably those two wrestling squirrels featured on page 9.
also, i am the kind of person who stops when she sees something shiny on the ground. if it is change, even a penny, i pick it up. the evidence gathered this evening shows that in my neighborhood, shiny things that catch your eye on the ground are generally just spit.
and actually, it got even better before i got to my apartment. now i truly know that god loves me. i decided i would check my mail box. do you know what was in there? A COUPON BOOK! for mcdonalds, granted. but i can now 2 free 32 oz soft drinks! and 20 piece orders of chicken mcnuggets for $3.29! and any breakfast sandwich for 99cents! i mean, those prices are a steal!
ok, so now i am debating going back out and getting the rest of the papers from that bin. actually, i do not know how to recycle in my building, or if it is possible. so now i am thinking about cutting the coupons out of the papers i have, returning them to the bins and hoping that when they re-fill the bins in the morning, they pick up the remnants of yesterday and recycle them. this sounds like an evening well-spent.
posted by laura at 9:24 PM
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