What a world

The amazing low price immediately catches your eye! Then, you notice that this great price is for an all-inclusive. Even better! Well, almost all-inclusive--it doesn't include the $320 in taxes that the fine print tells you about. Still, a great price by any standards, but why such exorbitant taxes? If the airlines and hotels can offer such a wonderful deal, why does the government feel the need to take more than half the total cost of the product/service? Kinda makes you want to shake the livin' crap out of the nearest politician, doesn't it?



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Romance is in the air

I was perusing vacation deals and came across the following review for a hotel in Cuba:

The hotel location is not good. There is lot of noise of cocks and cars. But with this price, I think that is good enough.

Now, I know that some women can be loud during moments of intimacy, but for a man to make "lot of noise" with his er, um, equipment, one can only assume that it must be heavy equipment. Perhaps it's fitted to give off that warning sound each time he backs up. I can see how that might be a bit disconcerting. You could be fearful a truck is backing up right into your room.

The review.

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On his last legs

AMSTERDAM, N.Y. – After he finished his lobster dinner, an upstate New York man apparently was still hungry for seafood so he swapped the lobster shell for crab legs — and now he faces a petit larceny charge.

Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies said a 57-year-old man brought back a reassembled lobster shell to his local Price Chopper store and claimed the crustacean was spoiled.

The store manager was about to let him trade the lobster for a $27 bag of king crab legs when he discovered the lobster was just a shell. Deputies said the man ran from the store clutching the crab legs when he was confronted.

Deputies said the man had already devoured the crab legs when they caught up with him at home. He was given an appearance ticket to answer the larceny charge in court.

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The story reminded me of the turkey scene in Chevy Chase's Christmas Vacation, which always makes me grin.