I love Big Lots.<\/p>\n
It’s a department store filled with wondrous and magical stuff. Like Golden Compass<\/i> action figures from France. Or possibly Quebec.<\/p>\n
I’ve found it’s a fantastic place to buy breakfast cereal. Two dollars a box for good stuff. Sometimes bad stuff, but usually good stuff. Cap’n Crunch good stuff. Rice Krispies good stuff. Good stuff.<\/p>\n
For about a year, I lived off of Hi-C Ecto Cooler. I could buy it by the jug, for a dollar each. Ecto Cooler! (Based on Ghostbusters<\/i>, in case you couldn’t guess. It was green, like Slimer.)<\/p>\n
However, sometimes I’ve bought things at Big Lots for which I ask myself later, “What was the thought process here<\/i>?”<\/p>\n
Is it because I’m at Big Lots, and I think everything they sell is magic? Is it that I’m a complete dunce? Thought process, what is it?<\/p>\n
Take, for instance, Java Pop.<\/p>\n
It’s a soda, made of coffee beans, not cola beans.<\/p>\n
Vanilla flavored. So, I expected it to taste vaguely like Cream Soda.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t taste like Cream Soda. Instead, it’s naff<\/i>.<\/p>\n
It tastes like coffee, sort of. It’s certainly not anything I’d willingly drink. Except that I bought a four-pack of bottles, and now I have<\/i> to drink it.<\/p>\n
Naff. I mentioned that, right? That it’s naff?<\/p>\n
Let this be a lesson. Just because it’s at Big Lots and it looks cool, that’s no reason to buy it.<\/p>\n
Unless it’s Ringers: Lord of the Fans<\/i>, a documentary on Lord of the Rings<\/i> fans I’d been wanting to watch for a long while. It was only three dollars. Pretty good deal, if you ask me. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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