Why does everything feel like a scam?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4392686/posts
Comments at the link above.
I live in New York, which is a very expensive city, so I have become somewhat desensitized to paying stupid amounts of money for normal things. I don’t regularly experience sticker shock because, to some extent, I live inside the sticker shock.
But lately, even I have been losing the plot.
A few months ago, I paid $35 for tortellini at a restaurant and received ...
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