I probably did something today that most people in America wouldn’t consider.
Kroger keeps the most delicious Lemon Pepper Asparagus Salad on its rotation at the deli, and when I’m in the store during my 30 minute lunch, it’s impossible to pass up. Included in the deliciousness is asparagus, roasted red peppers, olives, feta cheese, lemon pepper vinaigrette, artichoke hearts and pine nuts. Its 100% of pure tastiness. The total for this scrum-did-le-ump-tious-ness totaled to $2.00.
I quickly scanned the UScan area. Assessing the current level of busyness, it was there that I did what most Americans wouldn’t dare to do. Reaching slyly, but laughingly into my purse, I pulled out my Ziploc back of pennies and filled the Uscan with 190 pennies and 1 dime.
About 5 minutes later, and with only one assist from the Uscan clerk, (who had to bang the machine to release my stuck pennies) I left with a smile on my face, the sneer of disgust from a random customer waiting on who knows what (not me! I made sure I wasn’t holding up the line…), and the best lunch in the world.
My asparagus salad is now eaten, and I can truthfully say, “I paid pennies for it.”
