This car is…very excited to be a Prius. Not a single E was spared.
Or maybe it’s an acronym?
Exuberantly ensuring environmentally endangered ecosystems exist eternally?
I don’t know, but like to imagine that’s the sound it makes when it’s zipping down the road, blissfully enraptured in the fact that it’s a car and can go faster than any cheetah, and never has to know what Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Mac & Cheese tastes like.
Bene scribete.
Don’t float in a moat
With a goat-toting boat.Don’t fly in the sky
With a sly lying spy.Don’t run in the sun
With a pun-loving nun.(Take note as to why I’m no fun.)
Bene scribete.
I’m sure we’re all familiar with the sleazy but time-honored practice of shunting off portions of the cost of an item or service into a miscellany of arbitrary fees that are inseparable from the cost of trading in said item or service – and thus have no reason not to be factored into the sale price – in order to deceptively advertise a false, lower cost.
When the local K-Mart was closing down and selling off their fixtures, however, I saw what has to be the most blatant, lazy, and absurd example of this I could possibly imagine – a “buyer’s fee.”
Let me say that again – a “buyer’s fee.”
I mean, is there anything more inherent to the cost of buying an item than, you know, buying it? It’s practically a parody of itself.
“See, this shelving unit costs $50, but the privilege of actually buying it will run you another $7.50. You can avoid the buyer’s fee if you just want to pay the fifty bucks and let us keep the unit.”
Way to go, K-Mart. You’ll be the envy of ISPs everywhere. (>^-‘)>
Bene scribete.
Writin' Fish 