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This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in Biblical times, we’d probably have been offered another Commandment free if we accepted the first ten. - Earl Wilson, Field Newspaper Syndicate Reader’s Digest, February, 1977, page 118

Late one stormy night a physician was aroused from sleep by a farmer who lived several miles out in the country. The farmer, who had the reputation of being “a little near,” first inquired how much the doctor charged for country calls. “Three dollars,” snapped the doctor, impatient that the fellow would…

A young matron, shopping, asked a butcher the -price of hamburger steak. “Seventy-nine cents a pound,” he replied. “But at the corner store it is only fifty cents,” said the customer. “Well, why didn’t you buy it there?” “Because they haven’t any.” “Oh, I see,” said the butcher. “When I don’t have it…