Oh, oh, oh...I have a real life capitalist bouncy that happened to me just tonight!!! It's perfect for this thread!
So, I went down to my little grocery store in Drain. Usually I like to go into the big city and shop and Winco and Costco because this store is too damned expensive. But I do love how politically incorrect they are. Every year at Christmas time the put this giant, beautifully tacky light up Nativity right smack dab outside the front of the store. Anyway, I just needed to get some meat for my dogs and some cranberry juice to mix with my lime vodka. Now, unfortunately there isn't going to be a cop in this story because you can see the city hall & sheriff's office from the parking lot of the grocery store and he must have been out driving around the county cuz his car wasn't there.
I got my stuff, chatted with Betty, the clerk who's probably been working there since the early 70's and started to leave. Well, I get outside and here's this little kid, couldn't be any older than 10. He's got a box full of mistletoe mixed with holly berries & tied with ribbon (my husband's at the casino playing poker & drinking...I'm saving this til he gets home) and these little cloth bags like you'd use to put treats in for a children's school CHRISTMAS party with some chocolates in them...he probably got the chocolates and the bags at the dollar store but he obviously took some time to put them together. On my way out he asks me if I want to buy some mistletoe or candy. He's selling each of them for a buck...kinda expensive but it's the American way! So, I ask him what are you selling them for? I figure it's some school something or other or some kind of church project, the kind adults walking out of a store are pretty much suckers for. No, the kid says, "I'm doing it for myself. I want some money." I bought 3 of each! Capitalistic greed is alive and well in small town America! Damn I love my life!
Cindie