our phone company sure talks a lot of smack.
It's Black Friday, and instead of staying under the bed wearing pots on our heads as we normally do (and as is proper), we foolishly ventured out to Target in search of the rumored $3 toasters. You heard about the $3 toasters, right? The availability of $3 toasters was announced/leaked/made somehow known about three days after our toaster suddenly stopped working, so the idea of a $3 toaster was very appealing to us.
Of course there wasn't a $3 toaster in sight. Where is the outrage? I couldn't find any.
There had apparently been $7 toasters, but those were cleaned out. So we're poking at the display toasters, which range from $15.99 to like $39.99, and Other pushes down the lever on one and it pops back up without sticking or lighting up or anything. Other says, "that's weird," and I say, "it's probably not plugged in." "DING," says the light bulb that goes off above Other's head. He says, "I wonder if our toaster isn't plugged in."
A long conversation ensues about why in hell either of us would have unplugged our toaster. Conclusion: we have no idea, but these un-plugged-in toasters are acting suspiciously like our supposedly-broken-toaster-at-home. Further conclusion: we may not need to buy a brand new $16 toaster because the toaster we got for free like 7 years ago is perfectly fine. Further conclusion: of course, if we don't buy a new (effing) toaster, our toaster will indeed be toast (ha! see what I did there?) and it will now cost like $24 instead of $16, plus we'll need to make another trip to Target.
Sigh.
So we bought the $16 toaster and came home to find that the toaster had somehow become just unplugged enough not to work but was fully functional once plugged back in. So now we have two toasters and are slated to make another trip to Target.
Of course there wasn't a $3 toaster in sight. Where is the outrage? I couldn't find any.
There had apparently been $7 toasters, but those were cleaned out. So we're poking at the display toasters, which range from $15.99 to like $39.99, and Other pushes down the lever on one and it pops back up without sticking or lighting up or anything. Other says, "that's weird," and I say, "it's probably not plugged in." "DING," says the light bulb that goes off above Other's head. He says, "I wonder if our toaster isn't plugged in."
A long conversation ensues about why in hell either of us would have unplugged our toaster. Conclusion: we have no idea, but these un-plugged-in toasters are acting suspiciously like our supposedly-broken-toaster-at-home. Further conclusion: we may not need to buy a brand new $16 toaster because the toaster we got for free like 7 years ago is perfectly fine. Further conclusion: of course, if we don't buy a new (effing) toaster, our toaster will indeed be toast (ha! see what I did there?) and it will now cost like $24 instead of $16, plus we'll need to make another trip to Target.
Sigh.
So we bought the $16 toaster and came home to find that the toaster had somehow become just unplugged enough not to work but was fully functional once plugged back in. So now we have two toasters and are slated to make another trip to Target.
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