Blog Love Omega Glee: I Think I Have A Coupon For That, Too (28 October 2012)

Snapping his snipping scissors in the air, Jake's dad clips coupons from the Sunday newspaper. He may never need nose hair tonic, but if he ever does, he now will get 50 cents off it! He loves coupons, and considers them free money, albeit a currency restricted to one product or so.

Jake comes into the dining room and sees the paper spread out on the dining room table in front of Dad, "Anything good this week?"

Dad holds up a coupon, "Three dollars off dog food!"

Jake stops and stares, "Um, we don't have a dog."

"Well, if we get one before November 30th, then we'll save some money on food, won't we?"

"Are there any cat food coupons?"

"You're moving out. Why would I cut out cat coupons?"

Jake sighs, "This again. I don't know when I'm moving out, Dad, and I don't know if I can take the cats."

"So you're just going to leave them here?"

"I don't know what to do with them. I'll figure that out later. Donald's allergic, but since he won't be there a lot, he's thinking it might be OK to have the cats in the house. In any case, I was asking initially if there was anything interesting in the news, not the coupons."

"It was all about that CEO who got shot."

"Oh, yeah, that was awful."

"Yes, it's 'yes'."

"Oh, not this again."

"It's no wonder you can't find a real job. You don't even know how to say 'yes' properly."

Changing the subject, Jake says, "You know Francine was there. It happened at the restaurant she works at. She said it was terrifying."

"If you ask me, they ought to do it more often."

"What? Murder people while they're eating dinner?"

"No, keep CEOs in line. They won't be making 400 times what everybody else makes, won't be laying everybody else at the company off, and won't be not caring what anyone thinks, if they worry about some working class assassins doing them in."

"That's ridiculous, Dad. Francine was there. She could have been killed."

"Plenty of fish in the sea, my boy. Speaking of which, here's 75 cents off fish nuggets."

"Aarrgh! I'm out of here!" Jake yells and storms out.

It's quiet in the house after Jake slams the door until Dad yells, "Sue, since when doesn't Jake like fish nuggets?"

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