Come Monday...Have I Been Had?

“Come Monday…” is a weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about, websites, movies, documentaries, television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time. Be assured that these reviews will be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come Monday.” This is subject to change, however. In fact, I would be most derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be good—right? Therefore, since good is generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).

A little over a month ago, I received an email from a very good friend with news of printable coupons for a free bag of [Doritos] up to $5.00 in value until 12/31/2010. Needlessly to say, I was thrilled. For I get the munchies every now and then, and I love telling my wife that they are “not yo cheese” whenever she goes to indulge herself. (No, she doesn’t think that it is very funny, either, but it always cracks me up, which is what counts in my book.)

Then, my wife remembered being behind some people in a check-out line, who got into some trouble for trying to use some coupons that they had got off of the Internet, which turned out to be fakes. So, we were fairly apprehensive the first time she tried to use one a couple of days after I had printed off what is shown above, but the cashier didn’t even look up when she accepted the coupon. In fact, this happened two more times over the next three weeks.

It came to a screeching halt last week, however. For when my wife tried to use one of the coupons at one of our local [Walmart Supercenters], the cashier told her that the coupons were on their fake list, and the same thing happened when she went to use one at a [Dillons], which is where they had been accepted before.

Now, I suppose we should be thankful that my wife was not escorted by security to a holding area until the police arrived to take her into formal custody for attempted fraud and whatever else they could think of at the time, but something just doesn’t feel right about this. For how could these coupons be counted as good for almost a month before it was discovered that they were not?

Yes, I suppose it could be just a case of it taking that much time on account of the coupons having to go from the local stores to wherever they are redeemed by [Frito-Lay]. Furthermore, it may very well be that the coupons were listed as fraudulent way before, and the cashiers just didn’t catch on before last week.

On the other hand, this may be a case of Frito-Lay discovering just how many people out there have a strong hankering for some free Doritos, and their bean-counters finally getting around to figuring up just how much money they were going to lose before the end of the year. After all, if just one person used just one coupon a day from July 7 to December 31, that would be add up to be 198 bags, which would add up to be between $792.00 and $990.00 at $4.00 to $5.00 a bag.

Oh yes, my dear Virginia, there really are some who can easily eat a big bag of Doritos in a single day, and with there now being several different varieties available, there wouldn’t be any danger of them getting tired of eating those kinds of chips. Moreover, these people would be so inclined to insist that Doritos serve as a good source of fiber. Therefore, they would be eating healthy by eating so many of them—even if only in their own minds.

Quite honestly, I don’t know what to think about this situation, but I hope the “stuff” hits the proverbial fan if a bunch of people start having a lot of trouble with constipation. Well, I suppose the case would be that there wouldn’t be all that much “stuff” hitting the proverbial fan in a literal sense when it comes to constipation, but I think you know what I mean.

P.S.: While I was going to bookmark the sites that I am providing links to in this piece, I saw where [Snopes.com] had posted an article about these coupons being fraudulent last April, which just muddies the water even more for me. For I didn’t receive that email about them until July, and one would think that they would have been on every fake coupon list from here to there long before my wife first went to see if they were good if they really weren’t!

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