Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Convenience Stores

The other day I was in a convenience store trying to take out money from an ATM. It told me I only had $0.60 in my bank account and would not give me the $0.60 because it does not carry that denomination, which is too bad because I would have bought 12 small candies. I love convenience stores. You can always find something you can afford in the convenience store unless you have 4 pennies. Some convenient stores are very nice, and they have a "Take-a-penny, Leave-a-penny" policy. In these convenient stores, if you have only 4 pennies, you can take a penny and afford a 5 cent candy. But you got to remember to fulfill your other half of the bargain at some other time in your life. You've got to leave a penny somewhere else, in one of those containers, although it doesn't matter where the penny comes from. If you use a penny you find on the ground, it might mean extra-lucky.