Too Dumb to Retire

There are many of life’s mysteries that I’m sure I’ll never find the answers to, but here’s one someone may have an answer for.

Driving around the country in late June and Early July, it seems there is an abundance of firecracker stores and mobile trailers on every available vacant lot. And every one of them will give you one free if you buy one. Wouldn’t it be simpler to cut the price in half of each one in the first place? Is the public that gullible that they don’t realize if they spend $20 for 10 firecrackers and get 10 free they’d get the same value if they bought 20 for $20? Maybe that’s why these wonderful firecracker emporiums have such creative names as “Crazy Charlie’s”. “Loonie Lorn”, “Silly Sam”, “Dopie Donald”. I guess there’s no end to the creativity of these entrepreneurial geniuses.
The one I remember best is “Joker Joe’s”. This one is a truck stop at Exit 8 on I-95 in South Carolina. The present one had to be rebuilt when the original one blew up about a dozen years ago. Folks in the area still talk about the best fireworks display they’d ever seen.

Enjoy the day

Geezer

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