$2.14 cents gets you a ‘Route 44’ size with tax, title, and license included. I mean this thing is ready for you to drive off the lot! It’s so good, I can’t think of anything that is better as far as self-satisfying drinks go. In one yum-filled package, you get, not only great flavor, but 126 grams of carbs! Atkins dieters, need not apply.
This weekend, marked the 1 week anniversary of our house being listed for sale, and we got an offer to buy it on Friday evening. After some back and forth counter offers, haggling on price, we came to an agreement around 8pm Saturday night. It almost felt like I was buying a car, but instead of me getting to talk to the salesman, I have an agent that did the talking, while I hung out on Shoal Creek Saloon’s back patio discussing the rules for our upcoming Fantasy Football season.
Side note: why would someone have a cool patio like that, and not allow dogs? Wake up, SCS, this is Austin!
The 2nd to last call I got from our Real Estate Agent was to tell me that they have agreed with the final price that we were willing to go with. They came up and met us at that price, and the stage was set for contract signatures and fax backs on Monday morning. I really thought that call was the last of about 6 calls I’d gotten from my agent in an hour. But there was one more.
When it comes to groceries and stuff you buy at the Grocery store, there are a few things I tend to be picky about. Pasta, always buy the ‘Made In Italy’ stuff. It’s worth the extra 30cents. Olive Oil, get a good one. It’s so much better. Muenster cheese, get the boars head they slice for you, and not the prepackaged crap.
Then one that some may consider as embarrassing to discuss => toilet paper. Early on in my stint in Austin, an Ex-Boss, told me and the other guys in his office that he never goes cheap on Toilet Paper. He explained how he gets this TP that has Aloe on it. Well, I gave it a try, and became a believer. Sure, it’s about a buck to a buck fitty more than most others, but the difference is considerable.
The difference can lead a man to spend over a ¼ million dollars on a home. You see, the last call I got from my real estate agent on Saturday night was about 60 seconds after the one I thought was last. He tells me:
“Mike, there is one clause they want to add to the contract at that price; they’re saying that all Toilet Paper stays.” I guess it was love at first
Want to test the difference? The 1/4 million dollar TP (Yes, the Triple. Spare no expense.)
4 comments:
So Marla writes about fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a runner and you write about the vagaries of toilet paper? Interesting. I like it!
Correction...I only write when Mike asks me for an update on an event just completed. So, I did not write this story. Anyone that knows me and my family would recognize this immediatly. My parents would hardly take us out to dinner, when I was young, much less hiking. My parents' idea of hiking is walking from the car to the river (about 20 ft) over only slightly mowed grass. Their idea of "getting out in the great outdoors" is doing yardwork. This was Mike's clever way of telling me that he had downloaded tunes and podcasts on my MP3 player.
What a cool guy is he!!!!
interesting communication you two have. but hey - whatever works. and new ipod tunes are always a treat. oh - and, on another note, your dogs do seem happy. just not quite as exuberantly happy as Otis. which is probably a good thing. for you. :)
1. Hell yeah to the strawberry limeade. Don't fall for that cherry crap they try to give you by default.
2. I agree about the olive oil, but not the pasta...
3. I personally prefer cottonelle as well... something about those ridges...never tried the aloe or whatever... what I've got seems to be working alright, but yours seems to be working for you as well... congrats on the house... sorry to hear about the loss of your favorite TP however.
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