RIPPED OFF AT HARRY'S!

So, I'm out there working on the truck yesterday (it still ain't running good) and I run out of duct tape.

So instead of going all the way out to Lowes, I decide to just run up to Harry's Hardware (I usually call it Harry's Hellware, but I'm being Christian since this is on the computer, and just anybody might look at it).

Now, Harry's Hardware is a little mom and pop store, and I know they don't get real good deals on the stuff they sell like the big fellows do. So I always figure I'm gonna pay more for stuff, but it's way out there to Lowes, and I didn't want to trouble anybody to pump me out there.

So I get my duct tape. I got the gray kind to match the truck (ain't got it painted just yet). So I go up there to pay out and there's another fellow ahead of me. Now, I'll give Harry credit for being a slick (let me get my word book) marketer. Right up there where you pay out he's got this box with these single Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in it. Now I'm not talking about the little ones like Santa leaves in your stocking...I'm talking about the big ones.

I was hungry. Truthfully seeing a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup normally gets me that way. So while I'm waiting for Harry to count out this other fellow's stuff (it was funny...you shoulda seen it...poor old Harry counting one by one every little screw and bolt and washer, and on and on that the other fellow had bought) I picked up a peanut butter cup and got started on it.

So the other fellow finally goes on, and I get ready to pay out. Harry rings me up and says, "that'll be 9 dollars and 27 cents." "NINE DOLLARS AND 27 CENTS?" I ask him.

"Yep, six-fifty for the duct tape, two dollars for the peanut butter cup, and 77 cents tax at 9%." I'll tell you, the reds really started rising up on me, but other than making a scene, I just paid him and left.

On the way home I really felt ripped off. I mean, I hate paying tax on the necessaries of life like Reeses cups and duct tape...it just don't seem Christian to me for the government to put that on folks.