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April 17, 2008 |
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An Evening Alone
FOUND by Kyle
in New Haven, Connecticut
I found this in a library book. You see the first item and you wonder what's next. Then you see it's these candles... and then you realize that this person was not going to have a romantic evening.
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What? No Lamisil?
Are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?
Flargy?
...mmm...romantic evening....fresh hair, ambiance and warts half off....
My favorite thing about this find:
The total was 8.55 and the shopper had enough presence of mind to pay 10.05... making it a convenient buck fifty in change: a dollar and two quarters. Instead of a messy buck forty-five: a dollar, a quarter, and two dimes.
Odd, I know.
this looks like a receipt i would find in my grandma's purse, especially with the preciseness of the change (actually, she'd probably count out the whole 55 cents with pennies and nickels just to get them out of her heavy wallet).
So, they're selling wine by the shot glass in Connecticut's finer grocery stores these days, eh?
Well, it IS New Haven. Those Yale undergrads can be so pretentious.
Have a Merlot on me next time you're there.
@reading too much, I love to get convenient change back to keep from schlepping around lots of pennies and nickles like ecogyrl's grandma. But, the best part is to see the look of puzzlement come over the face of the cashier (usually a teen or early twenty-something) when I hand them $22.07 for a $11.82 bill. Thank gawd the cash registers calculate the change ($10.25) for them.
@Librarian, don't know about you, but I wouldn't categorize Rite Aid as a "finer grocery". *wink*
Lotion, candles and wart remover. Perhaps some type of DIY witchcraft for getting rid of a bothersome boyfriend/girlfriend?
Two awesome finds today, Jason. And some hilarious comments.
My ex-roommate's pre-date shopping list.
Freon, I think the Suave is shampoo, so DEFINITELY hex ingredients.
"I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair..." (Jonathan, is that from South Pacific?)
Night in gale, 40 foot tall bird and keeper of the FOUND random knowledge... I humbly implore thee what ingredients would this hex be for, and how might it be performed?
@Night: I'm not a Jonathan, but yes, that is from South Pacific.
It would seem that wart removing by candlelight is not a safe practice. Perhaps this poor soul wishes to hide their warty shame in the dim light of denial. And, by the way, when the wart falls off, how will they find it in such poor lighting? In bare feet, by unhappy accident, in much the same way as how I find those wonderful, wet, kibble-sprinkled hairballs my cat deposits onto the carpet in the middle of the night?
An evening of self indulgence is in order!
@Lizzy B: I discovered one of those kibble-sprinkled hairballs using my bare feet this morning. Aren't they charming? Especially when they're still warm.
(eewww, Lizzy B.. very colorful post!)
@Night in gale, shampoo was my first guess too on the Suave (due to the SH) but they have other products, and MAT CARE ALOE just didn't sound shampoo-ish. I suppose if they have a new line for taking care of dreads MAT CARE would be useful, and ALOE would make them soft.
UGh...I wouldn't call this a great find. Receipts are just too easy to come by these days...especially when going through the self-checkout lines.
Oh well, "Tommorrow is another day".
@Winston, when dealing with receipts one must look past the forest to the individual trees. It is the beauty of shampoo (or lotion), three candles of an exotic scent, and wart remover that make this a good and true Find. If it were merely cotton balls, nail polish remover, and a People magazine it would be hum-drum. But, this, this one is art.
Any reciept with wart remover taking up over half the total cost is priceless.
it's NAT care aloe- (compare to the Ms in Merlot- the little down angle in the middle is much higher than the down part in the Ns.)
I'm going with SHampoo, too.
Ah, good point on N vs M on receipt.
Sauve Shampoo Natural Care with Aloe it is!
Can you believe it? As soon as the warts went away, she came back and...TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!
The candles are because the smell of the dissolving warts is over powering.
Where's our new buddy Toasty in DE? Talk to us!
@Kira: I'm no Wiccan, but the way I understand this hex to work is, first you light 3 votive candles, any fruity scent will do, and you place them around your bathtub while you soak in said tub.
Next, you proceed to wash your hair with the Suave shampoo, following the directions printed on the bottle. Repeat as needed.
After drying off with a fluffy towel, you would apply the wart remover to any and all warts on your body.
You would then telephone your bothersome boyfriend (or girlfriend) and describe the details of your ablution, emphasizing the application of the wart removal product.
*Poof* bothersome boyfriend (or girlfriend) disappears.
(Or turns into a newt.)
ha! i go by that rite aid on the way to school all the time.
@librarian: it's not a "finer grocery store" by any sort of standards and i doubt many yalies shop there. it's not all that close to campus but is instead located in the part of the city that separates the chic yale retail area on broadway from the artsy westville section.
(*I think if we kiss Flargy he'll turn back into the handsome prince.*)
i agree with hilary. i highly doubt a yalie would dare shop at this section of town.
i hope the wart remover did the trick! if not, i at least hope those wine-scented votives emitted a decent smell.
Oh Mon-a, you're going to make Rex jealous....
Is New Haven so small they only get a four-digit zip code?
(Haha Flargy! You're a former speaker of the house! Sucks to be you!)
@hilary and christine ... but with this particular shopping list, what yalie would want to shop where another might see him/her?
Or would they have these supplies delivered in a plain brown wrapper?
When I looked at it, my first thought was that the shopper only went in for the wart remover and picked up a couple other $1 items as well so they would have something with which to sandwich the embarrassing product...
Kinda like when a woman sends her husband to buy tampons and he comes back with Men's Health magazine, 2 jars of car wax, a Snickers bar, tampons, and a jumbo size bag of frozen buffalo wings. Gotta sandwich the tampons between a bunch of manly stuff and hope the cashier isn't paying attention... lol
@librarian - haha good thinking!
Hilary, how is three blocks "not all that close"? And since when can all of Westville be categorized as "artsy"? Not to mention the fact that once you pass Rite Aid, you have to go another mile and a half before you're even IN Westville.) Nice try.
@flargy, i think what hilary is trying to say (and is right on target) is that the rite aid is on the more impoverished section of whalley ave. this less-than-desirable area is sandwiched inbetween 2 sections that are desirable (one being broadway/york st/the green - yale area, and the second being westville - where the art galleries, boutiques, soho hair salon are located.)
as you would know, living in new haven and all, a yale student would be most likely found in the "nicer" downtown "safer" areas, 2nd most likely in westville, which is also generally more "safe", and LEAST likely to be found near the plethora of liquor stores, crack deals, and overall poverty that illuminates that section of whalley ave.
ps. just so we are on the same page, are you a yale student?
Sorry, I'm late again.
I had a wart on my hand once and I used wart remover. The wart didn't just fall off. It sort of peeled off over a few days. It was gross.
Worse than stepping on a hair ball is stepping on mice innards. There's that one part that cats never eat (gall bladder?) and they always leave it laying on the floor to be stepped on.
BORING!
Eeeew! Picky kitty barf balls. :P
@ flargy again, you are right... not ALL of westville is artsy. and in your defense, crime does exist in westville and in the nicer areas downtown as well. however, crime is unavoidable, and the percentage of it that does occur is nearby the "rite-aid" section of whalley.
think about it, you are more likely to see an antique shop or art gallery, if you will, in westville ... not across the street from rite aid. instead, you'll more likely find a check cashers (which yalies usually dont have to worry about - getting by paycheck-to-paycheck is often not an issue for them), a kentucky fried chicken (opposed to lena's cafe in westille or au bon pan on broadway).
so if you look at the bulk of what hilary has said, rather than the technicalities, you may find that she isnt as inaccurate as you may think.
Perhaps it's a quiet night of pubic region maintenance, shampoo, blow-dry and some salve for the vaginal warts.
Turbo, imagine a zero in front of the 4 digit ZIP...Flargy, is it still nerd-cool to quote Python...
Christine, you are absolutely right in one regard. I misread Hilary's post as stating that Rite Aid itself is the dividing line between Yale and Westville. Having re-read it, I agree that it's semi-borderline between Yale and the 'hood. Then again, a whole lot of New Haven is made up of gray areas.
As for the other issues, I stand by my original response.
And no, I'm not a Yalie by any stretch of the imagination. I take it that means we ARE on the same page...
Geez, Flargy.
Give it a rest.
Frank and Beans: Sarcasm.
Please. Provincial, endless tales of how "I know New Haven and it's economic demographics better" put me to sleep.
Maybe we should start up Regional Found Fan Groups?
<Looking around>...Nah.
(Go look up in the orange box, y'all!)
I'm just stopping by to pay my respects to the death of the interesting-ness of this thread...
It was a good thread. It made many smile and laugh. Sticky pus filled worts, shot-glass merlot, it had seen it all. But alas, despite Turbo's effort to sustain it, there where those who just wanted it killed. With unrelated demographics and misunderstandings, it was finally laid to rest... May it rest in peace.
No, Frank, I was enjoying people telling Flargy that he DOESN'T actually know everything. Instead of fawning over him.
That was pretty cool of you Night in gale.
Turbo, sorry. Long day of trying to find something interesting to read. As Kira so eloquently put it, the thread is dead, may it rest in peace. Thanks for killing it, fucking New Haven Yale-loving Ivy League fucks!
...And check out the new Dirty Found up there ( for those into that kind of thing ). Heehee, I love my cooter.
@Nightingale! I LOVE IT!!! (I just used three exclamation points in a row... that just shows my dripping enthusiasm right there).
I might be wrong but when I looked at it I genuinely thought it was shaving cream? Makes sense to me because otherwise where is the conditioner...everyone knows you run out of that first. Plus I don't know if I want to use 0.79c shampoo.
PS I don't care a jot about the demographics of New Haven, Yale or otherwise
Ahh, Darlings The first item is a shaver with an aloe moisture strip. The kind I use when testosterone kicks in and my hairy man-like legs become too kinky for view. Just roll me in flour and look for the wet spot.
@Timeforyourcomeback: thank-you!
demographics bores the H out of me, but if its for the sake of lowering one's self-righteousness a tad through the process of proving a point, so be it.
by the way, arent some worts contagious? say the owner of this receipt had his nasty bump on his hand... then touched the receipt ... eww?
i hope kyle the founder and people at Found washed their hands, or they may be in for a surprise!
Rebel,
Your post was very entertaining! Thank you!
And some ppl are WAY too territorial over New Haven and their idea of where things are. There's no prize for accurately describing every single block surrounding this particular Rite Aid.
... or is there!?
I was under the impression there would be a prize....
I have worked for Walgreens....
It IS shampoo.
Suave Natural Care with Aloe. It does retail about two bucks but is often on sale for a buck or less.
I promise.
I am going to light a scented candle. Then I'm going to pour a glass of Merlot. Then I'm going to read the comments that this find has collected.
Be right back. Je reviens.
@Ghost - that reminds me of a line from mtv's the state...
"I was under the impression you could win prizes or money, not orphaned children"
"Looks like someone didn't read the fine print!"
At first I read the last item as "WMART REVOLVER .5mm" and I didn't catch the 'votive' part so I had a totally different idea...
Do you know how many 0.5 oz bottles of wart remover it takes to fill a bathtub? Around 7680. That's a bill of $38,323.20.
But, let me tell you, it's worth every penny! And the scent of merlot from the votive candles does a impressive job of covering the smell of searing flesh.
I had to visit a lot of Rite-Aid stores across the northeast, but having a completely wart-free body is blissful.
I don't actually know everything? Yeah, I knew that.
wow. i wish i'd checked back on this thread earlier. i ignited debate on the internet! check off one more Thing To Do Before I Die. thanks all. =)
@dorkus: oh em gee, is that you jenna? O.o
I just keep picturing that this is a couple's idea of a romantic evening in: dim the lights, light some candles, put on some Barry White, shampoo each other's hair and then remove each other's warts. Aw, yeah... ;)
Note the date 4/18/03 was a Friday. 6:47pm on Friday, yea this was not the buyer's best night I am thinking.
Haha that caption is very entertaining