Sunday, October 28, 2007

Romancing the Bar Code

My wife and I were shopping this evening at a Super Target, in the grocery section. I saw a wall mounted bar code reader that allows customers to scan a product with its bar code information to get the price. I turned to my wife and said, "Put you hand right here, under the bar code reader."

My wife hesitated. I'm sure she was wondering what I was up to.

"Put you hand right there, I want to show you something."

She held her hand under the machine. The bright red laser lit up a pinpoint on her hand. The machine did not show a price.

"There!" I said triumphantly, "The bar code reader says you are priceless, and you are indeed priceless."

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