IVIV backstory on Doc and Sauncho meeting cute

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 1 15:19:15 CDT 2009


In a supermarket, after a paranoid freeze, with a great
line: 'with the collision, legal reflexes reawakened." 

And, paranoid over their obvious munchies' purchases and
a sifter!----they add an extra hundred dollars' worth of 
goods, (with another good P list that includes lightbulbs!
and 'shrink-wrapped japanese pickles'??)

An "extra hundred bucks worth" in some year before 1970
pushes $500 today with inflation. Over the top amount 
for comic effect? or did TRP slip into thinking of $100
today which is still a lot of chips, yogurt, soda and
lightbulbs?


      



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