[a telephone conversation between Kenny and I] Again, if you don’t know who Kenny is, please do some research, get your life together, and then return back to this post.
Me: [yawn....] so are we looking for paint colors for your room today or what?
Kenny: [several seconds, but what feels like hours of groaning, sighing, and cover rustling] well, I don’t feel so good. I have food poisoning. I’ve been up all night vomiting.
Me: Oh thank God, because I have waaay too much stuff to do today. food poisoning? what did you eat?
Kenny: some kind of Gordita-nacho-something or other at Taco Bell at 3 am.
Me: Well, did you ever think that wasn’t going to give you food poisoning? Oh, wait! I almost forgot to tell you the good news, World Market is going out of business. I’m going to go see if I can find some cheap stuff.
Kenny: When you’re there can you check and see if the Voss Water is on sale?
Me: Seriously? I really doubt that water will be on sale.
Kenny: Well, can you just check because I need some.
Me: You only like it because of the cool glass bottle.
Kenny: No I don’t. I like the taste of the water.
Me: It can NOT taste that much better than the other waters of the world that you can justify paying 3.49 a bottle.
Kenny: Yes it does.
Me: Ok. Well, I’ll going to level with you. I’m going to World Market today. While I’m there, I’m going to wander aimlessly and manhandle a a large amount of useless nic-nacs and large African vases that I have no intention of buying. But chances are, I probably won’t have time to check on the price of the water.
[...] The Kenny Chronicles: A bad Gordita and some classy water [...]
my best friend is the same with the water… we have Fuji water that apparently taste soo much better but is so much more expensive hehe. I am happy with my Brita filter water, however, I am been roped into Awesome Water im getting a free trial for Awesome Water, apparently it is awesome, can water really be Awesome!?
now, hold the phone susi. i DO like some fiji water. but thats only cus i have a longstanding obsession with figi.
Love your blog, and I have to say, I agree with your friend. The cheap, 99 cent bottles of water leave a lingering taste of plastic in the mouth that just ruins the entire water experience. And don’t even get me started on tap….
my whole thing is ellie… water shouldn’t taste like anything. nothingness is what good water should taste like. dont’ get me started on disani.. that crap tastes like a swimming pool
I love that glass bottle though…
It’s a drink! It’s a weapon! It’s allllllll good.
So did you look for it? I was there yesterday and bought every package of Haribo Raspberries gummy candy that they had. 10% off………..even the water was on sale.
enna- you and your weapons and your taking over the earth talk. pretty soon i’m going to need to hire security for my blog
kayleen, of COURSE you went there yesterday… because I went there yesterday and apparently we have the same shopping schedule always. and NO i stuck to my guns. I hate these store closings cuz they start with 10%, which is basically nothing and clear out all the good stuff, then they put the crappy stuff out and make it 50%. so, i struggle with these situations
Next on the block for store closings: Circuit City.
The best luck I had was when Media Play/Sam Goody went out of business, and they finally started marking things 50-70% off. I bought a bunch of CDs and movies at that point. The trick they use is the mark everything back up to full retail, and then slowly increase the discount. And since people are stupid, they’ll buy it all up likely before it hits a real discounted level.
And your friend um… Kenny, he’s a special guy.
hah, yes kenny is special indeed.
I”m just confused why people flock in droves to a place that has 10% off , i mean, if it wasn’t going out of business people would be like, “10% what kind of crap sale is that?”
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