Food on discount at the supermarket, that only came, late in the nights, and, that's when you go on your, shopping, sprees, being a student, with limited amount of, cash available for you to use…translated…
As I thumbed across, "The Gathering of Those in Charge of the County", it'd reminded me of how I didn't have enough money, and chased the discounted foods for a living during my schooling careers. That was during when I was taking the certification exams, every time I'd left the libraries, it was already late in the nights. As soon as we walked out of the libraries, my friend and I would look at one another, and smiled, not saying what we were both thinking: discounts at the super convenience stores. To us, forty-percent off is the best, then it's the twenty-percent off, but, no matter what the discount rates, there were rarely any sales on the beef, so, we'd mostly purchased the pork, the chicken, and, I'd always, wanted, a bite out of the higher up beef.
"Beef!", my friend exclaimed. I'd thought, had you not seen beef before? But, that was, a different piece of beef, because it had the bright yellow discount sticker of twenty-percent off! And yet, we'd both known, that this wasn't the time to grab it yet. At this time tomorrow, that's when we'll, make the kill.
waiting eagerly for that discounted rate at the end of the day...photo from online
The day following, we'd gotten into discussions, NOT on the questions of the certification exam, but how to make the beef.
"Still hadn't bought the beef yet!", my friend's words, awakened me. Surely, we still don't have it yet, too soon, to be, discussing such, matters.
As the time closes in, we'd, shown up on time, at the meat counters. What was exciting was, that plate of beef, still there. But, we'd, miscalculated, that someone would, beat us, to it! Her hand, extended over ours, reached that twenty-percent-off package of, beef, and we'd both, started, feeling the heartaches.
What's even unexpected, was don't know if our movements were way too overboard, it'd made her, pitied us, and she'd, let go of the, beef, and, retracted, her, hand………as we walked out of the supermarket, that huge piece of beef was, inside our, bags, with the forty-percent-off sticker on it.
and this, was what you and your roommate had, "won"...photo from online
The pan sizzled, and the scent came out. What's that? Oh, it's the taste of, VICTORY!
So, this is how you'd, bought for the foods you wanted to have, because you were, students, with little to no extra money to spare, and, of course, you would, JUMP at the opportunity of a huge steak (or maybe it wasn't that big, but the price was, cheap!), and, the two of you won the fight for the meats, and, had a, great, steak, dinner.
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