Silicon Valley Baby

The Price of Groceries

We took SiliBaby to Costco for the first time, last Sunday.

The cashier, a cute, 20-ish girl who looked too young to have kids yet, cooed and pronounced SiliBaby adorable.

"Do you really think so?" I asked, my voice mischevous. "Would you like her?"

"Yeah!" the girl responded, excited.

"Enough to trade her for some groceries?" (This actually wouldn't have done us much good, as the net result would have been trading the baby for baby-related products.)

Her (male) coworker interjected: "$100 worth."

I replied, "Well, we're not buying that much, so can we get the difference in cash?"

Just then, she finished ringing us up, and the total actually came to $103.77. So, to get the groceries, we would have had to give them not only the baby, but $3.77 in cash, as well.

Babies sure aren't worth what they used to be! (Although $10/lb. is still pretty respectable, as a trip to your local butcher will attest.)

posted by SiliDaddy @ 1:29 PM