okay----this grocery store down the street that was built in 1988, but has reinvented itself several times, has a new sales attraction. In the space previously occupied by a starbucks, is some pool-table-like shelves, onto which a pallet containing misc & assorted return-merchandise from amazon. Day one of the week(thursday), every item is $8, and every day the price goes down. What is left by tuesday is dumpstered, so it can be restocked with new "stuff". at first, i ridiculed the people(but not to their faces, of course), for being toothless, tattooed, cigarette-smoking hillbillies, digging like dogs through the piles of merchandise. Some of them evidently brought knives in a 7 AM on day one, to open the boxes to examine the items and even lose some of the pieces. jerks! why don't i have the nerve to try that? but yeah----what's happened there in the last couple months is kind of supernatural; i have wished and hoped for certain items to appear for sale, and voila! Today i got an umbrella to keep in my car and a high-intensity led clamp light for my workbench, for $8 each. yeah---i could've waited another day for the price to go down, but the bargin' huntin' folk were hard at it, diggin' like doggs, and i didn't want ta miss out on two primo deals. nope. another thing is that normally they don't have attractive wimmin workin' as cashiers there, but now i've spotted the exception. She is a 1960's-style long-haired hippie chick, neither super-thin like mama michelle or super chunky like mama cass. no tats, no nose jewelry, no weird hairstyle. it turns out she is a devoted catt mom, and she mention the "cat distribution system". Ha. `Prolly young enuff ta be my grandkid, but that's okay---she's legal. wish me luck. `