I've never purchased anything on Steep & Cheap. Honestly, I've never spent more than about 5 minutes total on their website. I have this thing against making any clothing/gear purchase online without being able to try it on/out first. However, I somehow got signed up for their 'daily dose' emails where they alert you to the bargains of the day. And let me tell ya, I secretly get sorta excited about reading these each morning. Whoever sends the email blasts out always includes a short little story or dialogue along with the deals, and they are phenomenal. Mostly mindless and random, yet quite amusing. Here is one from last week, as well as today's dose:
"I heard that one of my friends ate a handful of mushrooms he found in the backyard. Nothing happened to him. By that I mean that he did not die instantly. A little internet research tells me that out of the thousands of mushroom varieties, a handful are poisonous and found in North America. Of those, most won't kill you right away, but they could shut down your kidneys and kill you a week later. It's hardly surprising that of all the wild food, mushrooms have the greatest chance of being lethal. They grow in dank, shady spots and their odd curvy, yet angular, shapes look out of place in the natural world. I always wondered what kind of person in the course of history would pluck one off the ground and bite into it, and now I know it's the same kind of person as my friend Rob."
"For every one good pear you get, you have to eat about 10 bad ones. No other food is so consistently inconsistent. The bananas you find in the grocery store all taste pretty much the same. You'll get an occasionally mushy peach, but you should know better than to buy those out of season. The problem with pears is that sometimes the best ones look the most abused, and sometimes the best looking ones turn out to be as hard as a cinder block once you bite into them. You think I'd give up and stop buying pears, move onto a new pulpy fruit that has a gritty texture, but that one rare pear that gives you a hit of perfection keeps me coming back. It's like a really low stakes game of Russian roulette."
Welcome to another week!
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