On buying the basics
Conversation between two middle-aged women. Overheard in Harris Teeter during the first day of the triple coupon sale. The topic: The economy.
Woman 1, flipping through an envelope of coupons: "I come in here to get $30 worth of groceries and leave out here with over $100."
Woman 2: "I know. A friend said she came in and only got $25 worth of things. I said, 'What did you buy? Toilet paper and bread?'"