The Newspaper Article

I took my children to a burger joint named Arby’s the other day. Now every time we go there, though the food is really good but the service is pretty slow. I am not sure as to why exactly it is slow because every time we go there, I swear there are no more than 3 or 4 of the 30 or 40 tables occupied. Anyways, fortunately for me, there is always a current newspaper at the far right of the ordering counter. Now, I cannot help but think that my guardian angel must put it there in order to stave off me dying from sheer boredom.

So, on this occasion, as usual, I pick up the newspaper and begin to peruse through Section G which is the Automobile Section. After 5 or 6 minutes of looking for a good article, I finally found one.

“Your meals are ready!” calls the young cashier.

Now, under the normal circumstances, I would be grateful that the food only took 6 of the standard 9 minutes it usually takes to process the order but this time I was not impressed!

“Why couldn’t she have just messed up the order so that I can read this confounded article?” I complained to myself.

Smiling, I nodded my head, picked up the tray and headed to our booth … but not before I absconded with the article! I was going to steal it! Oh, I know … theft … but it was just a sheet of day old newspaper, I tried to justify to myself. Deciding to forgo the urge to pilfer, I proceeded to ignore my children at the table and read the article. I really don’t think that my kids even noticed as they were wolfing down their roast beef burgers, fries and cokes at such an alarming rate that I swear the McDonald's Hamburgler was in the building!

I wasn’t even half way through reading when I thought …

“I need to share this with my blogging friends!”

Now I knew that my memory was not good enough to memorize the entire article so I decided to pilfer this particular page as it was more important to me that I share this article with you rather than leave it on the table for someone else.

I suppose what I am trying to say is that I stole it for you guys… my blogging friends! (Oh brother.. what a pathetic excuse!) Now that’s what I call justification!!!

Now that I have spent 395 words (Thanks to Microsoft Word Counter!), I have no room to tell you about the article I read! Yah, I know… Another pointless blog right? But wait!... There’s more (sounds like an TV infomercial)… If you get back to me tomorrow, I will give you the jist of the article without further ado!

Now if you yell and scream at me in your comments, I won’t become offended! I will just have to hold off yet another day! No, just kidding! See you tomorrow!