I proudly marched home with a gift for James–hand mitts for the grill. I handed them over.
“Ah, yeah. I need those.” He drew them on. Right hand glove, check. Left hand glove…he turned it around in his hands. “Why’d you get two rights-hand gloves?” he asked.
“Whadayamean?”
He held them up in front for me to see. “They’re both right-handed.”
“Turn it upside down. Problem solved. ” He turned it over and put it on upside down. “Left. Right. See?” I smiled.
“All the batting is on the top side of the left mitt.”
“I suppose if we have to, we could each wear one and work together,” I said.
“Yeah, I could pick up one side of the hot pan with my right hand and you could pick up the other side with your right hand and we can march side by side into the house with a fiery hot pan between us. And if we have to fling hamburgers, we can . . .”
“They were on sale.” I’m the person stores see coming.
He couldn’t help saying it again, “I hope you never have a coupon for charm snakes, or a Gila monster.”
I don’t shop a lot, but I love to run across a good deal. James has never told me what not to buy, but he doesn’t use everything I buy him, like the great smelling aftershave. I had to tell him, “It stinks. It’s rancid! Throw it away.”
I know a woman with two different size feet of a considerable difference. She has to buy two sets of the same shoe to make a pair. Now what if she had a buy one-get one free coupon. Would that not make total sense to buy your shoes when you have such an offer? Of course, that’s not like having two left feet, but it would apply the same.
A shoe salesman discovered her one day and matched her with another customer who had the same problem, but reversed. No kidding! So when one or the other lady bought a pair of shoes, the salesman called up the other of them who had the opposite feet-difference problem and they bought the other set. Wow. What a salesman.
Maybe it takes a strange kind of savvy, coupon shopping, that is. Isn’t it a challenge? I once bought a pair of brand new kids Levi shorts for 90% off–$1.90 and gave them to my daughter-in-law for her to find somebody they’d fit. Really, I’m pretty conservative when it comes to using coupons. I don’t clip any ‘ol coupon–only the products I use faithfully. Or there may be an occasional product I want to try–I buy it once, and if it’s no good, like the cologne, I won’t buy it again, coupon or not. What stupid purchase did you make lately?
