I feel like the CVS card section is like, my second home. And I never realized why until I realized, that cards are like, five dollars each.
I guess I buy a lot of cards.
I mean, I was the first one complaining about the six cent WaWa coffee price increase (damn them!) and here I am in my local card isle, spending thirty five dollars on holiday cards like it's nothing.
I've even started to condense my card shopping trips, to reduce the frequency of the frantic-last-minute-dashes to the local card shop.
Ok so I'm there, buying Mother's day cards for every mother I've ever met (the whole childbirth thing is something to be respected) and right next to me is a "graduation" card station.
Do I know any grads? OF COURSE I DO. I need cards for them then.
I pluck out the best "Congrats New Grad" cards in the section. The selection totally sucks, BTW.
Then, I remember that Father's day follows Mother's day, and my dad's the greatest so he definitely needs something and since I can't afford a boat, he's getting a card.
Do I get the card now? Or wait?
No, we'll do it now. I only need one, because I only have one father, so I pick out a card.
Then as I'm leaving, my ex-editor eyes notice that on one card, there's a spelling error (it was done on purpose, of course). The card writer was trying to be cute, but I have the insatiable urge to take a red pen to the card and change it. But I realize that I can't really do that in the card isle, because people will look at me funny.
So I buy the damn card.
It has a picture of a hole-puncher on it and under that it says "I love you a whole punch". Looks like Cory's getting a card.
Anyway, I've recently discovered that e-cards are free. I might switch and go digital (like everything else). It's only a matter of time before Hallmark jumps on that one.
I guess I buy a lot of cards.
I mean, I was the first one complaining about the six cent WaWa coffee price increase (damn them!) and here I am in my local card isle, spending thirty five dollars on holiday cards like it's nothing.
I've even started to condense my card shopping trips, to reduce the frequency of the frantic-last-minute-dashes to the local card shop.
Ok so I'm there, buying Mother's day cards for every mother I've ever met (the whole childbirth thing is something to be respected) and right next to me is a "graduation" card station.
Do I know any grads? OF COURSE I DO. I need cards for them then.
I pluck out the best "Congrats New Grad" cards in the section. The selection totally sucks, BTW.
Then, I remember that Father's day follows Mother's day, and my dad's the greatest so he definitely needs something and since I can't afford a boat, he's getting a card.
Do I get the card now? Or wait?
No, we'll do it now. I only need one, because I only have one father, so I pick out a card.
Then as I'm leaving, my ex-editor eyes notice that on one card, there's a spelling error (it was done on purpose, of course). The card writer was trying to be cute, but I have the insatiable urge to take a red pen to the card and change it. But I realize that I can't really do that in the card isle, because people will look at me funny.
So I buy the damn card.
It has a picture of a hole-puncher on it and under that it says "I love you a whole punch". Looks like Cory's getting a card.
Anyway, I've recently discovered that e-cards are free. I might switch and go digital (like everything else). It's only a matter of time before Hallmark jumps on that one.