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How do you buy stuff??

Saturdays are a very relaxing day for my family because it’s the Sabbath. The day is  usually spent at my in-laws doing Torah study. Yesterday however, due to them have a mild cold, we stayed at our house and did our own study.

After that we took the kids to the park for a little while. The boys and I rode our bikes around the neighborhood and had some races. Good family time.

As we were riding back to our house a beat-down, blue pick-up truck with two men inside approached us. The conversation went a little like this:

Driver: Hey! You like eating good steaks?

Me: Yea, of course.

Driver: Take a look at what I got in the back (There was a large freezer in the bed of the truck)

Me: Oh sorry man. I don’t do any business on Saturdays…we’re Jewish.

Driver: (long pause) How do you buy stuff??

Me: (Annoyed face) There’s six other days in the week to buy stuff…

Driver: I’ve got Jewish friends that buy stuff on Saturday.

Me: Well….we don’t sorry, bye!

They continued driving around going door-to-door trying to sell meat off the back of their truck.

A) I would never buy anything from a guy wearing a wife beater, driving a pick-up truck, selling meat in a freezer.

B) We’ve had that same question so many times: How do you buy stuff? What if you need to eat, buy gas, etc.

Well folks, like I told the guy waiting to be on an episode of Cops, there’s six other days to buy stuff. As for eating, well gee – we eat what we have in the house – duh. Buying gas – c’mon, I can fill up Friday. Think this through.

I guess ignorance can be bliss, oy vey.

Photo by: Jetalone

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