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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I then walked to the thrift shop to browse the books.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Everyone has a copy of the Bible.<\/p>\n
Well I don’t.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I got up to the checkout, idly wondering what the woman at the counter would think of me.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
My puzzled look gave away my thoughts.<\/p>\n
“Because they are Bibles,” the woman explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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