all easter candy 10 cents
April 29th, 2007 Filed Under adventures, fun, random
The Rite Aid had six bins full of easter candy, marked “all easter candy .10″. In particular, I noticed that 10 cents would buy 1/2 lb of “milk chocolate flavored” (calories per serving: 200; servings per bunny: 6; main ingredient: sugar). So I got ten. Twelve thousand calories for one dollar.
All told, I spent $3.00 on peeps, marshmellow eggs, and chocolate bunnies.
Stumble it!punk vs. punk
January 21st, 2007 Filed Under adventures
I was standing on the corner of Broadway and Thomas on Capitol Hill yesterday, waiting for a friend, when a car pulled up and stopped at the red light. The driver threw a Jack-in-the-Box cup out his car window onto the street, three quarters full of oreo cookie vanilla shake.
I walked a few steps over to the shake, picked it up, walked a few more steps to the car and said to the driver through his window, “I think you dropped this.”
He replied with the fuck-you honesty expected from a punk, “I didn’t want it.”
For just a moment I was struck mute. In retrospect, I thought up all sorts of great things I could have said, like “We don’t want it either” or “Let me throw it out for you”, which coupled with my action could have made a powerful point. But I was not so verbally inspired, and instead I silently tossed the cup full of milkshake through his still-open car window. I think this surprised him, and he fumbled with the cup like it was a live grenade, trying to avoid getting his milkshake waste all over the inside of his punk car.
I turned and walked away, and he of course threw the cup back at me. I think he called me an asshole. At least I only throw fast-food desserts on other assholes.
