myAmygdala's Journal: Walgreens is having a sale on nuts

A jar of unsalted dry-roasted peanuts for $1.99. I think she mis-rang me up the first time, and only charged me $1.99 for two of them. The whole cashews were on sale, but only as two for $7. She asked me if I still wanted them, because I guess a lot of people would think it was supposed to be cheaper, and that was the only reason they'd buy it.

Anyway, I went back and got some more nuts. This time I looked at the signs closer. There's a limit. A family can only have two jars or cans of nuts. There's different kinds of jars and cans, so I'm not sure if it applies to all kinds of jars and cans, or if the limit is two types of each kind of jar or can. I plan on going back and getting more, and maybe this time I'll ask for clarification.

I wonder if they have any plans on enforcing the "two per family" rule, sort of like how Apple limits you to so many iPads. I'm paying cash for the nuts, though. They'd have to remember me. I wonder if all the cashiers are on the lookout for people who come back and buy more than their allowed number of nut cans or jars. Maybe they'll review the security cameras and identify me as someone who has come back multiple times to buy more than two jars of unsalted, dry-roasted nuts.

These things aren't exactly flying off the shelves, though. I'm not sure why. It seems like a pretty good deal on nuts. Still, it looks like they're putting peanut and/or canola and/or cottonseed oil on them. I read that cottonseed oil is not good for you. It seems kind of a stupid thing to put on nuts, but I guess people just don't care. They'll buy it anyway. Kind of like how they bitch about airport hassles, but they give those businesses their money anyway. I could go buy nuts at Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, or Mollie Stone's if I don't want cottonseed oil on my nuts. I probably shouldn't give my rats these nuts either, but they'll probably die of something else before the cottonseed oil negatively affects their health.

Anyway, the whole "limit two per family" thing got me thinking about the whole thing with "honesty" and how they tell you that you're a good person if you're honest. All it really means is that you're good for them. You help serve their own interests by denying your own interests. If you lie to serve your own interests at the expense of their interests, they consider you a "bad" person. But then "good" and "bad" only really refer to whose interests are you serving, yours or theirs? So maybe I'm a bad person for not complying with their "two per family" rule, but only according to them. As far as myself is concerned, I'm getting a good deal. If I had a family, I'd spend the extra cash I'm saving on nuts and stuff on toys or some shit. That would make me a good daddy.

If you're not lying, you're not trying.