20 Percent Off ???

Ok here is the story…my wife and I went to the mall Saturday to do some Christmas shopping, well let me clarify…Man type shopping:

I only agreed, due to we were only going in for one thing and one thing only. My wife, Signe, was so proud of a twenty percent off coupon

she had in hand and wanted to get this special present for one of the members of our family (I will call the family member Cool-B-X, and the present, Mystery-Box-One,

just so I want be giving away any Christmas surprise)


First, parking was a nightmare.

What made it worse was I was trying to find a mall entrance, NOT an entrance through one of the many department store.  Guys you understand this, if you walk through one of these stores to get to the mall with your lady, you know you will have to almost drag them out by force…

they always have to look and touch everything…


shoes…

makeup…

clothes…

They never want to look a cool stuff like...


Guns…

Camping gear…

Fishing stuff…

I bet guys would want to go shopping more if they did, yea like that is going to happen.


Once we made it to the store, I put blinders on my wife

and we went straight to the store. We were greeted by a sales man that quickly showed us three different Mystery-Box-Ones, ranging from 20 dollars to 41 dollars…Guys, guess which one my wife picked? You guessed it, the 40 dollar one, mainly because we had our 20 percent coupon.

Once in line at the checkout we were informed that Mystery-Box-One was on sale,

plus we can also use our 20 percent off. So we ended up getting it for around 25 dollars…WOW!!! What a deal…RIGHT?

Hold on, after we left the mall (yes I had to drag her out)

we had to go to Wal-Mart to get some groceries (guys you know where this story is going). The ladies are still proud of my wife

for getting the Mystery-Box-One on sale and 20 percent off.

Once inside, I walked to the man side of Wal-Mart to get some carburetor cleaner (up and coming story on the blog), while the wife started grocery shopping. While on my walk-a-bout in the store

I happen upon the EXACT same Mystery-Box-One on the shelf…

The price you ask? With NO discount and NO twenty percent off?…Nineteen dollars and forty-nine cents…


Merry Christmas everyone.


Big Al