unscathed

At the Carrefour checkout counter, the cashier mumbled

"Go and collect your 'fri-ay' from the information counter."

I couldn't catch what she said but lumbered there with my cello. To my horror, I spotted a huge sign that read,

"Be among the first 500 hundred customers to spend $50 in a single receipt and get 40 free eggs!"

I wished I shared the enthusiasm of the sign.

My original purchase was small and light enough to squeeze into my bag but it didn't look like the forty eggs, in any packaging permutation, would be able to do likewise. Anyway it was too late to chicken out and so I had 2 plus kg worth of eggs dumped on me with a smile that challenged me to get the eggs home in one piece. The prospect of taking a bus home with the cello and eggs made me wish I had the ability to apparate.

Thank God the eggs survived. Now I have the dubious honour of literally 'putting food on the table'.

It's pathetic how I amuse myself.