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Pricing of things like stuff and other paraphernalia in Ireland has been a bit of a mystery of late. Things are overpriced in a way that is not adequately covered by a word like „expensive.“ Prices bear no relationship to, well, anything.
My uncle Dan has finally solved the mystery. The reason why everything in Ireland is overpriced is called „pick a number.“ This is how the „pick a number“ principle of pricing in Ireland may have been applied to this toilet paper.
I imagine Jimmy, who runs the shop, said to his wife Sheila: „How much will we charge for the 4-pack of loo roll? Pick a number, Sheila. Any number between 1 and 10!“
S: „Um, two?“
J: „No, not two. Higher!“
S: „Uh, okay, four?“
J: „Ooh, ooh, I know! We’ll make it 3.45, that seems like a lot less than 4 and we’ll say 3 for the price of 4, so it looks like a bargain.“
S: Jimmy, you’re a genius!“
J: „High five, Sheila, we’re rich!“
True story!
PS: Interestingly, the pack is labelled „4 for the price of 3,“ although the 2-pack costs 1.99, so by that logic the price of 3 should be just under 2.99, no?
Die Garderobe im be2-Büro vor ein paar Wochen:
Dieselbe Garderobe gestern:
Fazit: der Frühling ist da! Oder ist es schon der Sommer?
…sogar die Ampelmännchen haben bessere Posen.
Style and Attitude!
It took a rainy spring day with a totally unplanned madcap detour through Paris and a 3-minute French pop song on the radio to make me want to ditch everything and spend the rest of my life as an impoverished writer in Montparnasse (also a fat one, judging by the lunch I had there). Zut alors!
