Bed, Bath & WAY BEYOND Prices

A few weeks ago I was shopping for a new dish drain. It had been a few years since I had bought one so naturally, I was shocked by the $7 price tag that accompanied the average large-sized plastic drain. On most occasions, I can squeeze fifteen cents out of a dime, but not this time.

I couldn't scrub the years of grime build up off the drain pan so I decided to give in to the $7 demand. A few weeks later, I received the Bed Bath & Beyond sale circular in my mail box.

I like to leaf through the flier. I like to look at all the endless, counter-space-sucking gadgets I'll never need. To be honest, I think it's the shiny chrome and stainless steel that takes me back to a time when shiny things were all I ever needed to amuse myself.

It makes me feel oh, so young again.

A dish drain caught my eye. Curiously, my eyes twinkled over the slick, shiny paper and the gleam of the stainless steel cup holders.

$69.99??!!

WHAT THE #@&* ???

All my dishes combined aren't worth $69.99! Wait, maybe I misread it. No, $69.99 is the correct price. Is that in US Dollars, I wonder? Maybe they made a typo and printed it in Yen.

My heart attack under control, I peered to the right of the shiny dish drain and discovered that coffee makers are also priced as such.

$149.99 Hmm, must be one of them fancy, city-type espresso machines and all that jazz.

I looked again. Nope. Just coffee. It's just a plain old coffee maker that makes one cup of coffee and only one.

$149.99 (plus applicable tax) cup of coffee. Now I've seen everything. It better be one helluva cup of coffee for that kind of money. I wonder if Bed Bath & Beyond is blaming gas prices as well?

Perhaps it's only that they need to pay for their giant stainless steel trucks.