Kroger plans to stop doubling coupon amounts...

[IrishAyes]

3. Coupons? What are coupons?

At least locally in this tiny town in RedNeckLand, we're dang lucky even to have a medium-size grocery and one dented-cans outlet. Neither take coupons; the grocery doesn't even pay for ads in the local weekly (or anywhere else) because they know most people have nowhere else much to go anyhow. To help normal people picture this, the nearest Walmart is about 60 miles away.

Oh well. I grow a lot of my fruits and veggies anyway. If anyone else has false fantasies about retiring to smalltown America, realize there are many trade-offs for what you get. This place imagines itself Mayberry but Peyton Place would be closer. The rates for violent and property crimes are pretty low, but the main recreation around here seems to be character assassination. Because my house is a hundred years old, the property tax is a whopping $184 a year, but when the residents aren't chewing up each other, they're also xenophobic as geese, especially regarding liberals.

I'm just saying there are tradeoffs for affordability, and people need to remember that. I had 3 different people ask me who's Bob Dylan when the subject of music arose. If you engage at all, your jaw will often drop to the floor. That is, if someone doesn't knock it off first. Your jaw, I mean; not the floor.