—by Carla

This week zoomed by for me. I did a little fill-in news anchoring at WBAP 820AM and waking up at 2am will never get easier. But once I was there, man I had the greatest time. Anyway, a quick recap: Thanksgiving went well. I think. Our prepared turkeys were yummy. I made Paula Dean’s Cheesy Green Bean Casserole (for 36…yikes!) and baked 3 pumpkin pies. Everyone’s side dishes were amazing as were all 847 pies that ended up gracing our dining area. Needless to say, the freezer is now cram packed with Thanksgiving leftovers…and I need to hit the gym.

Today’s guest writer will shock the living daylights out of you. The husband actually wanted to put his 2 cents in about something that we disagree on. It’s not the biggest deal in the world, but it goes to show how we all see things so very differently. Here he is, in his own words…

FREE STUFF.  Yup, that’s the statement that gets everyone’s heart racing and wondering at the same time what the catch is. The stuff I’m taking about is currently sold in over 80 countries and when introduced in 1903, eight of them sold for a nickel.  The same box of eight currently sells for 99 cents everywhere. But everyone knows you can have pretty much as many of these as you want for free…right? (Provided you dine out with a child.) Why are we not taking advantage of it?

 
Created by cousins Edwin Binney and Harold Smith, “Crayola” crayons were an immediate hit with young and old alike. The original box held just eight of them (black, brown, blue, red, purple, orange, yellow, and green) and today, Binney and Smith (renamed Crayola LLC) makes over one hundred different types, including those that sparkle, have glitter mixed in, smell like flowers, change colors and wash off walls…but I digress.
 
Every “sit-down” restaurant we dine in hands us a set of two to four brand new crayons with each child’s menu. Our two year old colors with one for about thirty seconds before he is bored and moves on to other distractions before our meal is served. What happens to those barely used (sometimes never used) crayons? We usually leave them on the table, discarded along with the remnants of our meal.
 
If they are free, why don’t we take them home? By now, I’m certain we’d have a sizeable collection of the eight primary colors, but what fun is that? Surely by now we’d never have to buy another crayon in our lifetime. And I’ll be willing to bet that the restaurant inflates the price of our food just a tiny bit to cover the cost of those little jewels, so they really aren’t free. We’re secretly paying for them.
 
Can someone explain to me why we’re leaving them on the table?

…Sure. Because we 1) have plenty of them at home and 2) if we start taking ‘em, how can we not take the sugar packets? I mean, they’re on the table, too.

Tags: collection, Crayola, Crayons, free, fun

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