Wednesday, March 14, 2012

An amusing snippet

...today on a quick car trip to Saskatoon for some tedious government business, followed by too many stops for other things. This was on the freeway en route to a mall, after having just bought a bunch of groceries in a horrible warehouse style store:

Mrs. Pinkerton (to Miss P #4): Do you remember that Jane Eyre series that we started watching on Netflix?
Miss P: Yes
Mrs. P: Well, I just saw a DVD of it in the grocery store--for $5!
Miss P: Did you buy it?
Mrs. P: No, Dad wouldn't let me.
Mr. P (indignantly): What?! That's not true! I never said a word about it!
Mrs. P (calmly): I can read your mind.
Mr. P (defiantly): Then what am I thinking right now?
Mrs. P (confidently): You are wishing you could just go home because you're tired and you hate shopping.
Mr. P (sheepishly): OK

End of conversation.

I had an unfair advantage. It's pretty easy to know what the average man in thinking when he's been up since 6 a.m. and he is smack in the middle of a multi-mall shopping jaunt with his wife and teenage daughter.
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9 comments:

  1. Ummmm it's $5 Lovie! $5!!! Get one for yourself & one for me too at that price.

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    1. It was the 80s version with Timothy Dalton. Do you like that one? And can you watch "our region" DVDs in Oz?

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    2. Yeah, Nah. (In Australia, this passes as a somewhat polite 'no thanks')
      I though you meant the latest version, which was ACE!!!

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    3. I have lost track already. There was a version of Jane Eyre in theatres lately, wasn't there? Or are you referring to the one with Toby Stephens? I also like the Ciaran Hinds & Samantha Morton version, but it was TOO SHORT. Someone should inform Hollywood: you CANNOT tell that story in under two hours!!

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  2. I am so happy I stumbled upon this blog. I am a 20 year old female from Moncton, New Brunswick -- And in 2009 I saw the err of Liberalism and ran as fast as I possibly could.

    Since then, every day seems like an adventure discovering more and more people who think like I do -- Keep up your amazing blog, ladies!!

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    1. Welcome, Anonymous! Thanks for the encouraging words. I hope you will always find something here to encourage you, too. Or at least make you laugh.

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  3. What store was that? Maybe someone might pick it up for someone's birthday or a hostess gift!

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  4. It was the Real Cdn Wholesale Club--the only place where the parents of 7 kids can buy a case of FIFTEEN DOZEN eggs (for colouring and Easter baking...)

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