Once again, Moby Dodge (well, it is a white Dodge conversion van) makes the trek from Port Orange bringing Gramps and tons of surprises (bargains!) from the local stores. Target appeared to be particularly hard hit this time…it makes me wonder if the store manager cries whenever he sees Gramps come through the door knowing that at best, he’s going to get 10% of whatever the price on the item is.
One thing is for sure, they’re sure making out on us here in North Carolina. Each trip has more and more fantastic tales of how he’s managed to beat down the infidel merchants. It’d be nice if he could spend a few weeks and whip our Target and Wal-Mart into shape up here so that we get the immediate 90% discount as well. We’re lucky if we see a sale of 15% off and that’s a rare thing.
It’s funny to hear how deeply Gramps has gotten into these stores. He knows the pre-programmed discount schedule at Target by heart and can tell from the tag when a reduction is coming. I think Target is his favourite, well…target! He certainly raves about their technological prowess. Now if we could get them to make their return policy much less byzantine, they’d be a clear winner.
We had some incredible plans for dinners for Gramps but those were scuttled when he wanted to eat light for the trip. We soon found out why…apparently there are these medical tests that can truly tell if you’ve been naughty or nice and tell you when you were naughty. Far be it from us to spike the naughty reading on Gramps…he gets enough grief from his doctors as it is. So we’ll let him slide…this time!
After dinner, we got to break in our new Mexican Train domino centerpiece. We actually managed to find one of these things at Meijer in Westerville. It looks like the eight-slot centerpiece from the domino set except that you have a slot for the starter domino and nine trains. Push on the domino in the slot and you get train noises (tooot! tooot! chugga chugga chugga! ding! ding!). OK, it doesn’t take much to amuse Mommy and Daddy… 🙂
