I, like a fool, waited till the last minute to get pumpkins. My girlfriend arrives tonight (from New York where she goes to school) to stay with me for a long weekend and she really wanted to carve pumpkins tomorrow, so I promised to get some. I went out after class tonight to the grocery store where I work and all they had left was an ugly sad misshapen one and a monstrous thing weighing more than I do and costing about 65 bucks. So I went to the nearest "pumpkin patch" hoping to have more luck there.
Everything left was quite large (@50 cents a pound there wasn't anything less than 15 bucks). I didn't really feel like spending 30 or more dollars on pumpkins, but I was torn. I knew she'd want to carve her own and that she'd be pissed if I didn't participate in the activity, so I was about to get two, then I decided on one that we could both carve.
The guy working there (who had about 6 teeth and a perpetual cigarette) asked if I wanted to earn the other. The first thought that went through my mind was, 'I hope he's not talking about sexual favors.' Thankfully, he said if I moved all the pumpkins to the center of the lot he'd give me one for free. So of course I took the opportunity; I'm a stocker at the grocery store, I'm used to the mindless moving of heavy shit. It took about 15 minutes or less to get 'em all centered and I got my two pumpkins, each weighing about 35-40lbs for 18 bucks.
That was cool.
Everything left was quite large (@50 cents a pound there wasn't anything less than 15 bucks). I didn't really feel like spending 30 or more dollars on pumpkins, but I was torn. I knew she'd want to carve her own and that she'd be pissed if I didn't participate in the activity, so I was about to get two, then I decided on one that we could both carve.
The guy working there (who had about 6 teeth and a perpetual cigarette) asked if I wanted to earn the other. The first thought that went through my mind was, 'I hope he's not talking about sexual favors.' Thankfully, he said if I moved all the pumpkins to the center of the lot he'd give me one for free. So of course I took the opportunity; I'm a stocker at the grocery store, I'm used to the mindless moving of heavy shit. It took about 15 minutes or less to get 'em all centered and I got my two pumpkins, each weighing about 35-40lbs for 18 bucks.
That was cool.
