I had dinner this evening with my dear friends T and S at an awesome new Chinese buffet. It was a festive evening - we had a nice stroll from their home to the restaurant, and managed to dodge the traffic crossing the busy street without getting creamed by a car. We had to walk through the shopping center to get to the restaurant, and inside we passed by a Family Dollar store. I looked inside the store, and there standing in the checkout line was a man that looked just like Sadaam Hussein, complete with the black beard like he had when the Marines caught him down in the hole. We all three saw him at the same time and had a good laugh over yet another celebrity wannabe sighting.
After dinner, we sat around chatting and started talking about the Sadaam look-alike again. Our first thought was how could a person go through life looking like one of the most despised men on the earth. Our second question was why the man didn't just shave his beard and mustache off and then he wouldn't look like Sadaam any more. Then we wondered . . . if Sadaam were actually shopping in the Family Dollar store, what would he buy? We came up with some interesting suggestions:
Cheap wrapping paper - if he needed to wrap some presents, and needed some paper at the last minute, then the Family Dollar is the place to get it. He could get 3 or 4 rolls for a buck.
Chocolate covered cherries - he could get a box of these Christmas staples for only a dollar.
Lavender-scented oil - he could mix this with some epsom salt and make his own fragrant bath salts. A good sized botlle at Family Dollar was only two bucks.
Spinner watch - Sadaam could choose from three styles: a dollar sign, a steering wheel, or a revolver chamber. If Sadaam wanted to be like a gangsta, these would set him back a bit more - they were going for ten dollars. But still a bargain for fake bling.
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