Morning Rambles: Weekend Edition #1

Ok, morning ramble time...

I had McDonalds breakfast (aka ambrosia) this morning..

Once a month or so, I'll drag my butt out of bed, kicking and screaming, that half an hour early to go jogging to get my Micky D's on.

While eating it, I suddenly had this flashback to this ridiculous "episode" I had when I was young.












My bff, Gid and I were about 12 or 13. We were broke, and bored one weekend, and stumbled across a garbage bag full of pop bottles in her garage. Sweet!! We could take those to Safeway where they would give us $.10 /bottle and $.05/ can ... Then we found another bag... then another.. This was a huge score!! In total I think we had about 6 garbage bags full of recycling.

Decked out in Value Village's finest (Gid was wearing a shirt that said "Just say Moe" and had a picture of Moe from the three stooges on it, and I think I was wearing an oversized yellow polo shirt with the name Shirley embroidered in pink), we set off on foot with our loot.

The walk to Safeway was about 10 minutes, and the entire way there we were excitedly talking about how we would spend the cash. We figured we had enough for 2 McValue meals and maybe a matinee at the movies... It was going to be a good day.

We got to Safeway and started the process, the first two bags were done, and we were excited. Then tragedy struck on the third bag. See, we made the fatal flaw of not checking through all 6 of the bags... Since, they were all together, and felt like pop bottles from the outside, we just assumed they were. We assumed wrong.. Bags 3 & 4 were in fact, MILK JUGS and would make us no money. Plus Safeway wouldn't even recycle them for us, so we were going to have to lug them home...

We didn't have enough for the movie. Slightly deflated, we set off for McDonalds, as we still had enough for our two McValue meals.

About one minute after we left Safeway, still dragging our two garbage bags of milk jugs, it started pouring rain... Like, SERIOUSLY pouring..

By the time we got to McDonalds (only a 3 minute walk from Safeway), we were soaked from head to toe. As we were too embarrassed to drag our milk jug garbage bags into McDonalds, I went in and ordered, while Gid stood with the bags outside.

Picture a 12 year old girl, wearing an old Just say Moe shirt, soaking wet, standing with a bunch of garbage, outside of a McDonalds...
Some lady actually approached her and asked if she needed any "help"....

On the way home, the rain started to dissolve the cardboard drink tray and and paper bag, but we made it home without disaster, just barely.

Gid's younger brother then tried to BUY one of our meals off us, which was just ridiculous, because we had worked WAY to hard for that damn soggy McChicken and now, cold fries.


So, thanks for reading, have a great day and don't forget to Just Say Moe...




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