7/03/2005 03:32:00 AM|||David M. F. Schankula|||

In search of birthday presents for a six year old member of the Project, yesterday, Jonathan and myself found ourselves at the Walgreens on Nicholasville Road (Zandale Shopping Center(ed)).

We were in search of a large bouncy ball. We found only small bouncy balls. Jonathan asked an employee if they had any larger balls. Straight-faced, we manuevered around the response. There were no larger balls at Walgreens.

Our cashier wore a name tag. Her name tag had, above all else, her name on it. Below that (below all else) her apparent job title: "photo specialist."

I asked her if they had any extra name tags. We are, if nothing else, "photo specialists" here at The Lexicon Project. She had no extras.

Jonathan found an even better piece of nostalgia. He grabbed a Walgreens' (where is the possevive?) sign. It said:

GREAT VALUE:
SUPPORT TROOP MG
2 / $1.00
reg. 0¢

Yes, sirs and ma'ams, that is the value of patriotism these days. It is the 229th birthday of our young and great nation. And you can join Walgreens' in supporting our troops--who have, in our President's words, answered a "higher calling."

For the loss of 1743 lives, plus whatever may or may not have happened today, you can venture to the Walgreens' on Nicholasville Road and support our troops, two for one dollar, regular price: zero cents.

God Bless America, and happy birthday.

"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bounds of Earth to touch the face of G-d. Thank you."
Ronald W. Reagan.

(The keyboard on which I am typing has no "cents" sign. We literally have dollars and no cents. I'd like to hear Alan Greenspan's thouhghts on that. I got my "cents" from this guy's website.)

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