Yesterday, I had a friend drive us to Coquitlam in his truck to help us pick up a kitchen table that was on sale. When we arrived, the clerk told us that the particular table in question had been sold out. After a bit of wheeling and dealing, he agreed to knock down the price of a different table and bring it close to the price we would have paid for the original one.
He took off $189, in addition to the table’s sale price. That’s worth the trip in stop and go highway traffic, right?

I jumped in the passenger seat of my friend’s truck, excited about the table and the savings. All I’m thinking about now is coffee, poker, and what I’m going to eat on our new table. As we turn on to the main street, not even a block from pulling out of the furniture store, I see bright yellow coats and dark hats in the middle of the road!

COPS!

I guess because it wasn’t my vehicle, and I was sidetracked by the ramblings of tables, coffee, and poker, that I had forgot to put on my seat belt. I grabbed for it, but the freakishly tall cop was peering at me from about 6 cars ahead of us and pointed at me with his 8 foot finger, motioning for us to pull over.

Did you know that not wearing your seat belt costs $167?

Savings:

• Table: $189

Costs:

• $167 for that little fuckle up.
• $18 for gas.
• $4.70 for coffees.

Total:

• - $0.70