This Belle and Sebastian song is one of my all time favorites. I think Sarah knows every single word. I on the other hand really love the tune and focusing on memorizing the phrase "for the price of a cup of tea". But, the idea got me to thinking, what can and can't i get for the price of a cup of tea? For arguments sake, let's just say it's $2.50.
What it can:
some airheads
rite aid ice cream (double scoop, tax included)
refrigerator magnet
5 stamps
a soda/water from costco vending machine
a couple itunes song downloads
a pair of shoe laces
grab bag at gas stations
around 0.0000035 of a house in orange county
What it should, but can't:
a gallon of regular gasoline
a box of honey nut cheerios
a new release video
a set of new guitar strings
0.00001 of a house in orange county
and...
3 brimming garbage sacks full of clothes taken to an unnamed used clothing exchange store at the Lab in Costa Mesa. Seriously, we got $2.45 for 3 GARBAGE BAGS full of clothes. Granted, they are used, but hey, they are in the used clothes business, c'mon. Last time we took them they handed over like $50 for one bag. Apparently, the recent increases in gas and rice prices have affected the used clothing business...They could have, at the least, bumped it up to $2.50 so we could get another quarter out of it for laundry.
So, this one goes out to Belle and Sebastian: if you decide to do a sequel song for the price of a cup of tea (and you choose to use $2.50 as that baseline price), don't include in your lyrics anything about 3,2, or even 1 garbage bag(s) full of used clothing, cause it's just not true.
7 comments:
so lovely to see you posting again. i do love that song, love it. especially in the summer. i do not love buffalo exchange. i'm still bitter about the rock and republic jeans. please!
man, i miss grab bags so much. if you know of any places in the world that have them, let me know. - hudd.
buffalo exchange is horrible ... unless you happen to have the right person helping you out. they can be a little too pretentious with their selection process. need to catch the jolly ones.
sorry, i hate it when you see you have another comment, and then its just someone who's already commenter. but i had to, this talk about prices going up. what about the penny candies? remember you could go into gas stations and buy sour patch kids or sweedish fish one at a time? i used to take a five dollar bill from my allowance and break it on one sweedish fish, so that i could have quarters to play nba jam and street fighter. then i found out that 7ve just gives you change if you ask. anyways... see ya
bummer about the clothes and if only we could buy a gallon of gas for 2.50. i feel like i am always saying remember when gas was 97 cents a gallon and my mom is always saying i remember when it was 25 cents...oh the good ol days!!!
ash
Oh, what I would give for a double scoop of Rite Aid (Well, Thrifty) mint chip and chocolate maltball crunch. UT doesn't know what it's missing.
i know, i know john, we really do need to start bloggin again. it's on the to-do list, so i am hoping to catch up this weekend. we're actually doing a re-design and blog address change, just to mix things up a bit, so i will keep you guys posted! the whole "only blogging about house" junk is getting old on me....anyhow, nora completely made us laugh when you guys caught her doing that little trick she does while eating!
Post a Comment