The word "free" is both the most enticing and most misleading word in the English language. Because nothing is ever truly free. Free gift WITH PURCHASE. BUY ONE, get one free. But if you are as easy as I am, you always get sucked in, spending more to get something for nothing, which you probably don't even need to begin with.
Unless it's free food. Free food is the best. Frequent eater, "buy 10/11/12 get 1 free meal" cards, are even better Even when it takes four years to fill one up, like Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Or a misunderstanding results in hoarding a full one from Cafe Nero, determined to redeem six months worth of tea drinking on the next trip across the pond.
Today I got a "free" meal at Cosi, my favorite lunch spot, after buying 10 meals over the course of a mere few weeks. (Oops.) At least frequently eating has its benefits. Even if the free meal was a not that great pizza - also a new thing - that was incredibly tough to chew. A price for everything, indeed.
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