Reid About It

Wal-Mart cares.

That's the only way I can describe this sale, featuring blank CDs for a jaw-dropping fraction of the cost. I mean, anytime I can buy something and save one-one-thousand, three-hundred and forty-eighth of the cost, I jump all over that deal.

How else could you make ends meet during this recession? With the money I saved by buying these at Wal-Mart, I was able to start a retirement account, founded a my own charity, and treated myself to dinner at a fine Mexican restaurant (it rhymes with "Taco Schmueno").

Seriously, why would you even bother to put this display up? Was it worth the time to stack all of these up and put up the signs that say you can save a whole penny on these CDs?

I'm sure somewhere there's a poor Wal-Mart employee who spent all day restocking the shelves, toiling in other people's filth, just looking forward to the moment his shift ended and he could walk out the front door, past the idiot greeter to freedom. Then, just as his time is about to end, the manager comes over and tells him to grab a couple pallets of CDs, because they're going on sale.

"How much?" the tragic hero of our story asks.

"One whole penny," comes the answer.

"#$@%^@" replies our hero.

"And hurry...it's for a limited time only."