Tuesday, October 18, 2022

How much?? (Part 2)

Sometimes, I hate being right.

Last Tuesday, I had to buy some paper for the printer. The local supermarket sold a ream (500 sheets) for EUR 4.99. As I was also doing some food shopping at the time, I only bought one ream.

"I must stock up on paper, " I thought. "The paper industry uses up a lot of power and producing paper will probably become very costly."

Three days later, I went back to the supermarket to buy more paper. The price had risen to EUR 5.99. In just three days.

How I hate being right.

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