Warning!

The closest real grocery store to our home here in rural Wisconsin is about 20 miles to the south of us. Because we were having company on Monday, we went shopping on Sunday night. Unfortunately, because it was a Sunday, the very thing that we drove 20 miles to buy was not to be found. We went into town to buy sirloin steaks...a special food sale item for the week and no doubt a favorite BBQ item for people that weekend. There were no steaks. OK. We got the few food items that were there and decided to return to shop again the following morning before our guests were to arrive. Not an impossible thing.

My husband is a very thorough man. He doesn't like driving 20 miles on hopeless grocery, "hunting", missions. When we arrived back to our home here in rural Wisconsin, he checked the Qwestdex directory on the internet to see if there were any butcher shops closer to our home. Makes sense to me. Why drive 20 miles to buy 4 sirloin steaks if you can drive 1 mile to buy 4 sirloin steaks? There were no listings under "butcher" in the near vicinity. He had to drive the 20 miles but before he left he sent me the following email with Warning ! on the subject line:


Hi "Grey Frog",

I used the online "qwestdex" phone directory to see if there were any butcher shops in the Birchwood area. The directory couldn't find any, but Qwestdex responded with two alternatives...consider this a warning to you:

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What you searched for: "butcher" in "birchwood, WI" and surrounding area.

We could not locate any businesses under butcher. Here are businesses listed under similar categories (Beauty Salons & Services).

SEARCH RESULTS

Alphabetical Listings


MARLENE'S LITTLE BIRCH SALON
410 S MAIN ST BIRCHWOOD, WI 54817-8815

SUSIE Q
MAIN ST BIRCHWOOD, WI 54817


signed.... "Grey Frog's Husband"


I think I'll wait until my next visit to Minneapolis before I get my hair done. Either the person who compiled the listing for Qwestdex had a received a really bad haircut here in rural Wisconsin or they made a really "funny" mistake. I'm willing to bet that the hair salons here are not that bad but....better safe then sorry.

On a side note: We had grilled steak last night for our guests. It was very good.


Cliche of the Day

Safe and Sound. Out of a dangerous predicament. Alliteration and redundancy again. If one is "safe," one is probably "sound," and vice versa. IT has appealed to people since at least 1529, when it appeared in Thomas Lupset's An Exhortation to Yonge Men. Shakespeare records it in Comedy of Errors (1592), where Antipholus of Syracuse says: "I long that we were safe and sound aboard."