Seafood Sale Prices Revealed

We get a little grumpy when every business screams "SALE" at the top of its wholesale lungs, without saving any air for a peep about prices.  It's hard to get too mad at the brick and mortar stores, though, when they just want a little foot traffic.  Delivery services like Schwan's, Amazon.com and hell, the internet, make it very easy to abandon the body to couch potato status, eyes glued to whatever screen is handy.

We've got legs

Decide not to use 'em.

(Apologies to ZZ Top)

Hence, "sale."  Everything's on sale.  Well, yes, of course it is.  A sale is simply what is accomplished when something is sold.  It is the noun form of the verb, "to sell."  Buyer beware:  "discount" and "reduced price" are entirely different words, if you want to get really picky (we do).  When we see the word "sale," we ask:  do you really mean that you're going to have lower prices than usual?

We frowned, we bullied, we cajoled.  Kris Buckner of Saddle Up was a good sport about it.  It looks like the answer, in this case, might be yes.*

*Yes, you certainly may drive around like a maniac, crisscrossing the state in search of lower prices.  Burn up your fuel and your time to save a dollar, if you like.  It's 2014 and we need new ways of imagining Grandmother;  what could be better than lean-and-mean Leadfoot with a stack of deer carcasses on the hood, turtle shells for hubcaps, pulling into the gravel driveway of the old family cottage at 5:30pm, exhausted, ornery and half-dead from applying non-stop scrutiny to aisles and aisles and aisles of sterile goods?