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The wife rarely calls me.<\/p>\n

Instant Message is her communication of choice, even if we’re in the same house.<\/p>\n

“What do you want for dinner?”<\/p>\n

That’s her secret code for, “I’m not cooking so either you cook or tell me what plate lunch your want for me to pick up on the way home.”<\/p>\n

Since she isn’t particularity delighted with my gourmet macaroni and cheese with hot dogs, we’re talking Zippys.<\/p>\n

The woman’s a saint to make sure I’m fed.<\/p>\n

\"Zippys-Chef-Salad-sized\"<\/a>And it makes her day when I say Chef Salad.<\/p>\n

Zippys\u00a0is her most favorite place in the whole world next to Macys and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The place stirs the soul of us local folks.<\/p>\n

She says it’s good for me when I eat stuff that has lots of different colors and keeps you regular, not that I’ve ever had any problem in that area.<\/p>\n

I like it because it has lots of other stuff like cheese and ham and whatever else there is that hides the fact I’m paying $8.40 for 75-cents worth of lettuce.<\/p>\n

Guys like bargains too.<\/p>\n

The problem is… Zippys is cutting back.<\/p>\n

The wife brought home this Chef Salad the other night that was maybe a third smaller than the ones I used to get from the home of the Zip Pack.<\/p>\n

It sure didn’t look like anything I’ve had before – or that menu picture above, either.<\/p>\n

Probably 50-cents worth of lettuce that was hidden by less stuff than before.<\/p>\n

A menu item has become a side dish.<\/p>\n

I don’t think Zippy’s\u00a0gets it.<\/p>\n

Sure, it’s raising its prices because the cost of that lettuce and other itsy-bitsy stuff is going up.<\/p>\n

I can decide if it’s worth it to buy that now-overly expensive salad.<\/p>\n

But to raise the price and then cut back on what you get kinda makes the decision easy.<\/p>\n

Nope.
\nIt would leave a rabbit hungry.<\/p>\n

At the rate that thing is downsizing and up-pricing, I’d be on a super-model diet for $10 in no time.<\/p>\n

I’d probably look a lot better.<\/p>\n

And also a lot grumpier from being hungry and irregular.<\/p>\n

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