Pick a Pound of Peppers

I was in the produce section in the grocery store the other day getting some salad fixins and there was a young couple filling their cart with every kind of fresh fruit and vegetable they could get their hands on. They were really stocking up. Health nuts probably. I was keeping it to a minimum. Salad greens, cucumber and tomato. I was however eyeing the peppers. They had some nice yellow, red and orange bell peppers, not to mention some big fat green peppers. I love a little yellow and/or red pepper on my salad. But hey now, they're almost two bucks a piece. That seemed a little to steep and I passed them by.

I did the rest of my shopping and within ten minutes or so I was checking out. As I'm putting my items on the belt I stop suddenly when I pickup a bag with two yellow and two green peppers in it. What the hell? For crying out loud those kids must have mistakenly put these peppers in my cart. I paused briefly thinking "what am I going to do with these peppers"? The checkout girl was about 12 and I didn't wanted to swing around and wave the peppers and say "These aren't mine". So in the end I set the peppers on the belt and six bucks later (green peppers are half the price of yellow by the way) I've picked a pound of peppers. I wonder when those kids realized they had no peppers. Reminds me of another story about having no piper at the party. But that's for another time.