#4 just came in and asked if I could help him with a problem. He had a gift for one brother, see, but he wanted to get more so that each boy could get a present.
I told him that if these weren't expensive items,I would take him out tomorrow to get more, but if they were pricy, we'd just have to wait until birthdays.
"Yay!" he said,"I have plenty of money. These surprises were only one dollar when I bought them".
I agreed that a dollar wasn't too much to spend.
"I want to buy two more so that I can put one in each brother's stocking!" he announced cheerfully.
I'm really proud of him, because this year, he hasn't asked for everything he sees. Instead, he actually saved all of his allowance for a few months in order to buy gifts for everyone.
"There's just one small problem with buying more surprises for my brothers," he said. "It will be hard to get more."
"Why is that, sweetie? We have several dollar stores in our neighbourhood".
I assumed that since the item cost a buck, he'd bought it where he got most of his other gifts- at the Buck-O-Rama just down the road.
"I can't get these presents at a dollar store. I can only get them in Georgia. Is Georgia too far to drive to get more presents?"
"In Georgia? Do you mean those bottles of 'Pappy's Sissy Sauce', or maybe the peach salsa we bought? Because those things were way more than a dollar.
"No, not stuff like that. These are fun surprises, and I bought one in Georgia."
"Where in Georgia? The only other place we all shopped was at the bookstore, but I paid for your book. Are you sure you bought this in Georgia? Where in Georgia?"
I should never ask. I should learn to just smile and nod.
"I bought this at the place where we all got out of the car and went to the bathroom, and then there was a great big lawn to run around on. Do you remember that place?"
"The rest area? You don't mean the rest area, do you? There's no place to shop there!"
Wrong.
"Of course that's where. And yes there is too a place to shop at that rest area. I found a machine in the bathroom, and I bought this really cool thing for a dollar. I saved it until Christmas. It's a kind of candy, I think. It's called 'Trojan'".
See, I need more cats. Lots of them. I need to become a cat hoarder, so that CPS will take him away. That way, I can sleep at night.
When Poe ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
2 of the choices were 50 cents, one was 75 cents. One of the 50-centers was labeled "Genies Delites" and claimed to feature 2 adult surprises including THE NEW BIN LADEN CONDOM.
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