Mission: Acquire Postcards

Part 1: The Burrito

So Thursday, I was walking on my way to buy lunch, because I was tired of PB&J and wanted to get a burrito from this place N took me my first week. Only I didn't remember where it was. Normally I'd eat with the other coops, but S and C were gone on a test, and B had taken the day off to be with his parents, so the only coops were N and me, and N decided to go to the gym during his lunch break. So I'm stuck having lunch on my own, with only N's vague directions "somewhere across the street right?" to help me find the burrito place. So I took off using muscle memory, and ended up at a mall where I'd had lunch the first week. Having failed to find my delicious burrito, I settled for Subway instead.

Part 2: Hallmark

But fortune favored my misled wandering! For as I started back I passed a Hallmark store: At last! I thought. Maybe THEY have postcards (unlike the grocery store)? I walked in, and immediately saw some beautiful cards with pictures of California - $5 a piece. My heart began to sink. But as I turned around, directly opposite were postcards, with a sign "35 cents each, 3 for $1". As my friends in Cinci say, "JACKP(H)OT!!"

I grabbed nine of them to get a multiple of 3 and went to the checkout counter. With few customers in the store, the manager was happy to see me. She started by asking if I was visiting, at which I explained my coop and how I was from Cincinnati working on my ME, and she got excited and declared her husband was an electrical engineer. The other lady who was working the cash register interrupted to say she'd forgotten about the 3 for $1 discount and started re-entering the purchase, at which point the manager said, "Oh give him all of them for one dollar!" I laughed and thanked her, and wondered at my good fortune. Before I left the manager told me to drop by if I ever need something to do or someone to talk to! Suffice it to say, I will drop by and say hi whenever I go past the Hallmark from now on.