One Christmas Eve my wife called me at work and said we
needed more wrapping paper and could I stop on the way home and get some. “Sure,” I said, and I stopped at the local
Dollar Store that afternoon on the way home.
(We were apparently OK with our supply of tape, bows and little name
tags, so I didn’t need to get any of those.) This was a last minute purchase on
Christmas Eve but it was really a no pressure purchase since it was just
wrapping paper. So I was not upset when I realized the check-out line was
moving extremely slowly. When I finally
reached the checkout, the clerk told me the reason for the delay. “We ran out of pennies,”
she explained. I, still being in good
spirits and wanting to give her something clever to share with and perhaps
amuse her family at their Christmas dinner table the next day and perhaps
future Christmases, said with a smile, “That would be like the JC Penney Store
running out of dollars.” Well, she didn’t get it. No laugh, no smile, no
nothing. So, I’m guessing that she did
not share that story with her family.
I, of course, have shared the story with my family every Christmas. And now, you can share it with yours.
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