Batteries Kind of Included

This evening we made the rounds, hitting the ATM, post office, bookstore, and a store that sells a mess of different things. It was in the mess store that we got a bit of a surprise.

We've wanted a small food scale for a while -- we've been using one that my wife picked up at a yard sale about 25 years ago -- a little spring mechanism dealie -- for a dollar. The spring still works, but the tab for the pointer snapped off. I thought I could kluge together something that would approximate it -- we're not doing brain surgery here -- but when a flyer came from the mess store offering a substantial discount on one item, we knew what the item would be. And as it turned out it was a better deal than anticipated, because the price marked on the box was ten dollars less than it should have been, and the box price was what we got it for, minus the discount.

Got it home, popped it open, inserted the supplied battery. Hmm...wonder why there are slots for two batteries? Looked at the tri-language manual. "Insert the batteries...."

Ah, well. It's still a good deal.