My Sick Mind

I was in my local drug store tonight, picking up supplies for a long bike ride tomorrow. Among them, sunscreen and PowerBar chewy things. The PowerBar bag had a 50-cents off coupon stuck to it, so dutifully, I peeled it off. When I peeled it off, I noticed that it said, "Valid only if removed by cashier." Why, I wondered quietly to myself. When I got up to the buxom young cashier I commented on how I have apparently done some of her job. "Sorry, I peeled this off," I said, even though it didn't seem to be a situation that begged for an apology. "I didn't notice it until I peeled it off." "Well," she replied, "There is one cashier here who wouldn't give you the fifty cents." Apparently, it wasn't her, since I got my huge discount. "Really? It's fifty cents," I replied. "It's not like it's five dollars or anything." And then I noticed that on the bag, the residue of the removed coupon...

As a follow-up to Friday's ridiculous stories, here is another one . How much is a scholastic athletic career worth? According to the Washington Post, Garrett Sauls, a freshman at South River High School in Maryland was faced to answer that question in May, when the streakily talented Maryland teen won a putting contest at Lake Presidential Golf Club in Upper Marlboro, Md. For winning the contest, Sauls was given the opportunity to walk home with a $5,000 check. He turned the money down, because accepting it would make him a professional athlete by default. "I was thinking [of taking it] because you wouldn't really get in trouble unless you get caught," Sauls told the Post. "It's like in college football, those players, sometimes they get paid. "If you know you're not good enough, then you take the cash. I'm no superstar or anything, but it's still in my mind that I have the possibility to play." That's right. We live ...