While eating lunch my supervisor popped into my cube and said “It’s beautiful out, sunny, warm, not humid!” I finished my lunch and grabbed my bag to go for a walk downtown.
I had a half dozen old CDs in my bag that I wanted to get rid of, so first I walked down to a used cd store. The guy at the shop gave me $13 for the cds, fine with me.
I then walked to the thrift shop to browse the books.
While looking through the religion section I noticed a few Bibles on the shelf. I thought back to the introduction to a set of “Great Books of the Western World” I have where they explained that since everyone has a copy of the Bible they didn’t include it in the set.
Everyone has a copy of the Bible.
Well I don’t.
Since reading that I figured I should pick up a Bible, I’m not a Christian, but it’s a good book to have around.
So I grabbed a copy of the Good News Bible (Modern English) in hardback, a softcover of the King James Version, and a hardcopy of Who’s Who in the Bible just for fun.
I got up to the checkout, idly wondering what the woman at the counter would think of me.
She rang me up and the total came to 75 cents. 75 cents? Hardcover books are 75 cents, softcover are 25 cents, that’s $1.75.
My puzzled look gave away my thoughts.
“Because they are Bibles,” the woman explained.