Receipts

I bought a pocket knife this afternoon. The receipt should have said:

121100 Mini Blackhorn 9.94
tax .50
Total 10.44

Allow room for "Lowe's" at the top and some white space at the bottom and what have you got, 2 or 3 inches? Not quite. My receipt was 18 3/4 inches long (and 3 1/8 inches wide) -- plenty long enough to hold both the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural (Times New Roman, 10 pt) on one side!

I didn't actually get those great words, of course. I got, on one side, Lowe's return policy repeated 5 1/2 times. On the other side, I'm offered (in two languages) the chance to win a Lowe's gift card (no indication of the odds), a lot of white space, and, almost as an afterthought
121100 Mini Blackhorn 9.94
tax .50
Total 10.44

Postscript: What's Dan doing with a pocketknife? Well, aside from using it to back up my boys in the knife fights that are an almost daily occurrence in Vienna, I like to be able to cut string so people at the CHO warehouse can tie furniture onto their car roofs. I used to have the perfect knife, about an inch and a half long and weighing almost nothing, but I had to toss it into a trash can at Dulles Airport on our way to Europe a couple months ago.