Today's Special
I went for a swim during my lunch hour today and I stopped by the SuperAmerica convenience store to pick up a Diet Coke. As I was standing in line, I saw a sign on the counter advertising a special deal:
"BUY 3 PACKS OF TOURNEYS
AND GET A
BREAKFAST SANDWICH, FREE!"
The sign pictured three packs of cigarettes fanned out like a deck of cards across from a breakfast sandwich (english muffin with a fried egg, sausage patty, and cheese). Maybe I was feeling a little superior since I had just exercised, but I couldn't help but think this was a little over the top. You get a free sandwich if you buy THREE packs of cigarettes? Do you get TWO sandwiches if you buy SIX packs? Or is there a limit? The sign didn't say. Don't they want their customers to come back? Yikes, dude!
"BUY 3 PACKS OF TOURNEYS
AND GET A
BREAKFAST SANDWICH, FREE!"
The sign pictured three packs of cigarettes fanned out like a deck of cards across from a breakfast sandwich (english muffin with a fried egg, sausage patty, and cheese). Maybe I was feeling a little superior since I had just exercised, but I couldn't help but think this was a little over the top. You get a free sandwich if you buy THREE packs of cigarettes? Do you get TWO sandwiches if you buy SIX packs? Or is there a limit? The sign didn't say. Don't they want their customers to come back? Yikes, dude!
posted by David at 9:00 PM
3 Comments:
so, is this what we're having for breakfast tomorrow?
Well if we both want to eat, that would be about $30 for 2 sandwiches. I think I'll stick with cereal.
Looking at that pack of cigs I am about to throw up. I mean, show me a pack of Camel unfiltereds or even some Pall Malls and I'll get all reverent and hushed and think, for a moment at least, that a cigarette right now would be realllly good--but these...Tourney? I love the name for what the makers (who makes cigarettes like this anyway? Prisons? Siberian syndicalists? The CIA?) must want us to associate with the brand.
And to think--you choke down 60 of these and your reward is food from a gas station.
No wonder so many people vote Republican, with stuff like this in our systems.
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