I’d queue to pay for many things, but nothing so crumby as this.
In these inflationary times, there are many things I am prepared – through gritted teeth – to pay $150 for. Utilities. A tank of petrol. My kid’s orthodontic bill. Just kidding. If you wrote $150 now, and then kept writing zeroes until the middle of next Tuesday, you would have the amount that I’m prepared to spend on my kid’s orthodontic bill.
Equally, there are a great many things I am not prepared to spend $150 on, and after the past fortnight, the item headed with a bullet to the top of that list is 10In the old days, I would’ve thrown my hands up in the air, evangelist-style – and followed that statement up with a spirited “Can I get a hallelujah?” – secure in the knowledge that the crowds were surely with me.
“We have plans to go international, but the amazing response from all the Aussies actually jumped our plans to the top of the list,” McGowan said, adding that the company would open one shop initially and asking locals to vote on where it should be located. It was enough to bring on the sugar rush to end all sugar rushes, for those of us who weren’t staring down the orthodontic bill to end all bills. A cynic – albeit a broke one, with an aversion to overpaying for stale biscuits – might recognise a connection between the two.
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