Wednesday, September 04, 2002

Well, Kroger's has double coupons this week, up to 50 cents, and an instant replay of Whole Tenderloins for $6.99 a pound like Harris Teeter had last week. Not any more excitement for me on their weekly color promo except maybe $1.69 whole sirloin on page 6. You can make jerky out of that, or can some beef, but you have to trim quite a bit of fat. Maybe you might grind it all up for great hamburger.. Wednesday is food ad day, and I'll hit the other chains day-by-day, no hurry. Waterless urinals. Water conservation is at high tide here in Carolina, even as Timid Edouard promises rain. At work, they mention paper plates, plastic silverware, and waterless urinals to conserve water. I once made an essential  pit stop near the cafeteria a couple of months ago and there were a buncha toilet engineers there, seemed like 5 of 'em, wearin' identical white thigh-length lab coats, trendy necktie, yellow hardhat, each armed with clipboard topped with a stopwatch. One of 'em said, "Try this urinal - it doesn't need flushing!" So I sautered over, unzipped, and heard 5 stopwatches, "click-clickCLICK-clickclick", and stood there a second basking in the flourescent light reflecting off their brown-rimmed safety glasses. I waited a reasonable amount of time, then quickly re-zipped to another uneven chorus of clicks and went headlong  to another, less threatening place. The holly bushes outside invited me. I answered the post-urination customer survey with "I guess it's okay..." to one more unanimous chorus, quieter in decibels, of self-congratulatory gleaming in their eyes. I made it as far as the next john without exploding. Ah, surveys.     8:49:17 PM    comment []