5th January 2012

Doing my part for the economy

posted in economy, humour |

If the economy is trying to slow down, please don’t lay the blame at my threshold. I’m doing my part to keep the local merchants prosperous.

It started with a quick grocery run, around supper time. The car needed gas, and despite the recent jump to $1.31/litre, I filled the tank. Not good to run without enough fuel in the dead of winter. Never know when you might need the extra heat/light/locomotive potential. Not to mention the dreaded risk of condensation. Said so in the owner’s  manual, so it must be true.

The rule that states “No grocery shopping on an empty stomach” is valid. Everything looked good. Two different rice dishes; take them both. Extra dessert. Good idea. And when we got back to the car and realized how late it was, going to Subway for something impromptu made perfect sense.

We were already far from home (if we had to walk that far in the dead of winter), so we decided to go a little bit out of our way and purchase a new computer monitor. After all, why wait for tomorrow (when there might be a sudden change in the weather, or a flood in a screen factory somewhere on the other side of the globe)? Buy, buy. And the new screens are so much larger and lighter and brighter than the old CRT behemoths we used to install.

Two hours later, I’ve eaten, and the new monitor is already somewhere in the middle of the virtual Skyrim universe. The economy will have that extra millisecond it needs to withstand total meltdown. I feel like a superhero.

 

 

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