It took the better part of an hour, but at last Mogey and Smush were ready to tally their bill at Knute Knotts' Nuts Emporium. Well, almost ready.
"Alright then," said the clerk, "so we have the three pounds of almonds, two of filberts, five pounds of walnuts, and a pound and a half of beech nuts. That'll be--"
"Sorry," Mogey interrupted, "but you'd better throw in another pound of filberts."
"Right then," the clerk said, adjusting his tabulation. "Three pounds of filberts. You know, as by far (and it's not close) our most prolific customers here at Knute Knotts' Nuts, we'd be happy to throw in a couple of complementary nutcrackers with your order."
"A couple of nut-what-ers?" Smush inquired.
"Nutcrackers," the clerk repeated, holding up a hinged steel cracker. "For breaking the shells of course."
"Take a gander at this new-fangled contraption!" Smush exclaimed, holding up the nutcracker as if it was an iPod Mini.
"The nutcrackers will, um, not be necessary," Mogey said with a smirk as he popped a pair of in-shell walnuts directly into his gob.
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