Easy On The Mayo

For many people, coupon-clipping has been a popular way to save money. Coupons can be clipped from the grocery store ads, and from other places which are in abundance in the Sunday newspaper.

One day, I went into the kitchen to fix a sandwich and to get a cold drink. As I was rummaging through the refrigerator, looking for the ingredients for my sandwich, I got everything I needed, including a large jar of mayonnaise...and, then I noticed another large jar of mayonnaise, and then another! "What's going on here?" I thought to myself. Why do we have four jars of mayonnaise in the refrigerator?

I had to go to the pantry, to get the rest of the ingredients for my lunch, and there I noticed FIVE more large jars of mayonnaise! This was getting out of hand! All this mayonnaise for a family of four? I couldn't believe it, as this was enough mayonnaise to feed the entire country of Bulgaria for a year! The only thing I could think of how this could happen, was the use or miss-use of coupons. My wife does the shopping. and probably saw a coupon in the newspaper for mayonnaise every week or so, and she used it until the mayonnaise piled up!

There were NINE large jars of mayonnaise in the refrigerator and pantry, and my wife had some explaining to do. If we couldn't find a solution to this problem, I would have no choice but to send her to Minnesota to get a little therapy at the MAYO CLINIC!

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When I noticed all the mayonnaise, I knew I was going to write the story, and I knew how the story would end. And, that's why I didn't say anything about the 19 cans of green beans; the 14 cans of tuna; the 16 cans of corn and on and on! Eleven cans of pumpkin? PA-LEASE. My wife doesn't even bake pies, and I don't either! I wrote the piece this way because, I didn't want to distract the reader from thinking about mayonnaise all the way through the piece. (BTW, we gave a lot of this food to the needy).

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