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shiny objects

Sunday, June 20, 2004


Oh the irony . . .

I love persimmons - sweet, jelly-like, golden colored asian fruits. Love love LOOOVE 'em. Unfortunately, they're a delicacy, sold for about a dollar each during 4 weeks out of the year. Who wants to pay that much for fruit? I mean really, a dollar per 'simmon?

So what I did, gentle readers, is switch out the persimmon stickers with stickers for seemingly cheaper organic tomatoes. In my experience, the cashiers at HEB are noodle-brains and could never tell the difference.

But you see, gentle readers, what I didn't know was that the price for organic tomatos (listed per pound) turned out to be about the same as persimmons.

I saved an earth-shattering 3 cents.

Goddamn my lack of math skills!


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