Personal Inflation
When I was really little, my Dad explained to me one day about what success is, how to spot it and why it is different for everyone. I was really too young to understand but I still had the words when I got old enough
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A few years ago, I picked up a dinky-looking little head of radicchio (a red and white variety) and discovered it weighed just under half a pound. Good thing, too, as the price was something like $6.99/pound, and that was however many years ago.
This past summer-autumn, I looked at some white-stem bok choy, selected the best-looking, sturdiest, fullest head, thinking, "Good deal! $3.99 apiece!" Only, it wasn't. It was supposed to be $3.99 per pound, only the bin wasn't labeled as such, and when I got to the check-out and saw a charge close to $12.00 for bok choy, I thought I'd faint---and I can't recall ever fainting.
Spoke with the store manager---very civilly, both of us---and although he offered me the head of bok choy I'd selected at the price marked ($3.99 for the head), after considering for about three seconds, I declined but did thank him for his offer.
Holy -----! I can purchase a packet of several hundred seeds for that vegetable for the supermarket's price per pound, and have it fresher and without it having been handled by Joe Shmoe and his extended family, you know?
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