Archive for April, 2010
On Not Paying Attention to the Prices of Tasty Looking Foods at Jungle Jims
K: It’s a shame I’m feeling lactose intolerant when we just got that –
Me: $9 pint of ice cream?
K: Don’t you go deflating the price. That pint of ice cream was $12.
M: Oh… Is that how much it was?
K: Oh yes.
I remember because that’s what made it ludicrous.
$9 ice cream would have been roughly twice the price of Haagen Dazs. It would have been too much. But $12 is just ludicrous.
M: Yeah. I hope we don’t like it.
K: It is perverse to spend $12 on a pint of ice cream and then hope to not like it.
M: I don’t want to like it. I can’t be paying $12 for ice cream.
K: I don’t want to like it too much. I just want to eat it and say, “That was great! But I don’t necessarily need to do it again.”
M: I don’t tend to like things without doing them again.
