so sunday afternoon i go over to lauri's after church. lauri, pete, and i planned to carve pumpkins for halloween. we all pile in the car and drive down to arcadia to a pumpkin patch where we expect to score on some great carving candidates. you know, with a good "face side" and a big stem to lift off the top. it's the day before halloween so let's face it, the patch was pretty picked over. but the three of us managed to each find large-ish, robust, handsome looking pumpkins that we were very satisfied with. we take them over to the "register" if you will. which is basically this gypsy lady (she was dressed as a gypsy for halloween... or was she?) who works out of her r.v. she's got a table set up under the opened canopy and is calculating everything on a notepad. anyhow, lauri, pete, and i are expecting big discounts because a. it's a pumpkin patch, b. it's the day before halloween, and c. she's a gypsy lady. anyhow, after figuring prices in her crazy head, she proudly states that our total is $36. after our discount! we were stunned! lauri says, "i was thinking $10!". the gypsy lady said okay and we all breathed a sigh of relief... but the lady was thinking $10 each. i told her that pumpkins were selling for $2.50 at trader joe's. and she says, "honey, they're billionaires. i'm like a boutique... they're macy's." lol. crazy ass.
wondering what we ended up doing? we all put our large-ish, robust, handsome looking pumpkins back down in the hay, got in the car and drove up the street to albertsons, talking boatloads of shit all the way. and we got our pumpkins 3 for $12. the end.
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She was off her rocker!
The thing I can't understand is that that lot was almost picked clean. Which means there are people out there who are paying $15 per pumpkin.
Arcadia is full of Communists. That is the only possible explanation.
Oh this lady was a Capitalist for sure. I actually think she learned a good lesson in Capitalism from us. She found that you can not sell an item above what the market dictates. Whether you call yourself a "boutique" or not.
Arcadia IS full of communists. I am one of them. Now stay out of Mother Arcadia.
You should have put that capitalist pig dog of a pumpkin vendor in the Goulag, comrade.
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