Love conquers all...even recessions...I was struck yesterday by how the youts at my school rose up en masse to defy the grim recessionary climate and expend huge amounts of disposable income on equally vast quantities of candy, balloons, flowers, gift baskets, stuffed animals, and other assorted V-Day paraphenalia...Granted, that same day Congress was voting to heroically give away hundreds of billions of borrowed dollars, so perhaps that colored their decision-making as consumers...but somehow I doubt their current-events gathering was that acute and finely honed...
I asked a number of the Children of the Corn how much the average Valentine Day's gift basket cost (a typical gift basket includes a zeppelin-sized balloon in the shape of a valentine, a stuffed animal, enough candy, cookies and cupcakes to trigger a diabetic coma, and a rose). The median price was sixty dollars...
Hmmm...yes indeed, it really is 1933 all over again...
Unknown on February 20, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Children of the Corn - hahahaha
Kaela on February 23, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Children of the Corn.....I miss hearing that phrase in class. Youts...