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I Swear, I Don’t Ride the Short Bus April 21, 2009

Posted by Emily in : Daily Life, Family, Kansas , trackback

Tonight, I left the house on a mission to return something to Walmart. Instead of driving directly there, I followed my nose for a while.

I ended up at the Dollar store.

Which, is sort of concerning if you think about it.

Me. Driving around. All by myself. And I end up at the Dollar store?

Somebody, PLEASE, find the old Emily and return her PROMPTLY to Kansas!

While I was wandering around the store for no reason, shopping for nothing in particular, I came across a book that caught my eye: “The Beauty of Color” by Iman. Somewhere, deep down inside me, there is a fashion conscious, make-up loving Emily trapped inside this messy hair, no make-up, sweat-wearing, snotty nose wiping, diaper changing, mama body.

I took a triple take when I saw the book. A dollar? Really? Impossible. I remembered when the book came out three years ago. A dollar? Price check? Anyone? Hello? The book says it’s $29.95.

Which brings me to the ultimate point of this post.

When my younger sister was in high school, she worked at a Dollar store (which, was probably the last time I was in the aforementioned store). Her favorite all-time story from that lovely place of employment was the time a clerk got on the loud speaker and and asked in all honesty, “Price check!”

Ahem.

Everything is one dollar. Just one dollar.

So, tonight as I looked at my soon to be purchased book, questioning its price, I could hear my sister laughing in my ear.

I knew if she were there, she would secretly be trying very, very, hard NOT to ask me if I rode the short bus.

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