The price of quality

Hello class of 2018, we’ve all done stupid stuff in our lives and learned that life has consequences. Sometimes we do so well in life and avoid the bad consequences and barely notice the good. So I’m here today reminding you that bad things can still happen. Like the time I was working and burned my arm trying to rush an order. That story is too embarrassing to explain. Anyways to my stories.

At Gowell’s we sell “free” soda with every sandwich or pizza from the kitchen. Now, here’s the thing. You need to first buy the item that makes the soda “free”. After that you need to pay the bottle deposit on the soda, and then somewhere in there you need to pay taxes. So, the correct term for free soda is cheaper soda, but that doesn’t sell as well as saying free. So, there was this one time I sat down on break and looked at my receipt for my sandwich and soda. I wanted to see how much the soda cost when buying it with the deal. Without the deal it’s one dollar and nine cents, and all of the extra stuff you need to pay for. When buying with the deal you still need to pay that extra stuff which is 5 cents for bottle deposit and the 6 cents for the meal tax.

The quality of things can sometimes affect the price of things. For example, items might be moved closer to the front where people will look first and take the item if they are getting older or the store might throw a one dollar off sticker if it’ll expire soon. Store companies compared to big organization might have different prices too. Like a gallon of Oakhurst milk might cost more than the smaller company because Oakhurst is bigger. Basically, the lower the quality, the lower the price. Eventually the quality might go down to the point where the item might be crappy. There are consequences over what you pay for. Higher the price most likely the item just taste or is better overall. The lower the priced items saves money for maybe for example a not so great cup of milk.

There was a time when I ran 7 miles because I wanted to see how far I could run without stopping after cross country season ended. This run took 1 hour and I asked myself a bunch of questions. Like for example, “Why did I do this again?” or “Why didn’t I make a destination? Won’t I end up needing to walk the rest of the way home?” I was of course smart and picked a loop that I knew I could easily get home from instead of a huge long line. On this run I found myself not enjoying the idea of running alone. Also it probably wasn’t the best idea to run randomly again after not training for 2 weeks, but I did it and I did survive. The exhausting feeling of almost falling over wasn’t fun. So if I have anything to tell anyone it’s that you should plan to run with a friend instead of just randomly running alone. It wasn’t fun and felt like forever.

While I’m on the topic about running, it was a horrible muggy day after a rainstorm in Augusta. It was the first race in cross country this year and I wanted to try my hardest to see how close I could get to first place. I hadn’t of drinken anything that day because I never really truly drank water before running. So I ran the race thinking I was doing good and when I was at the last 100 meters I sprinted and I was so happy the race was over, but then it happened. Because I didn’t drink enough water I got a cramp in my right calf. So I fell and felt my first race cramp at the first race on my second year of running. Cramps aren’t fun, but after getting some water and ice I was fine after 5 minutes.

So if life literally gives you something good without consequence then that’s good, but most things have a consequence that you need to consider before hand. One thing I recommend is to drink plenty of water if you plan to run 3 miles and don’t do something that takes an hour alone. Being alone in your thoughts isn’t always fun. Everything has a consequence no matter what you do. There will always be a good thing you can find in the bad or maybe bad in good things. Don’t go searching for the bad and accept the good consequences in life. So what if Oakhurst milk cost more. Maybe the Hannaford brand isn’t so bad.

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