By: Sherri - PDX Yogini

Sherri - PDX Yogini — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:46:49 +0000

What a fantastic story, John! Thanks for posting it to share 🙂

By: John Storhm

John Storhm — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:01:21 +0000

What a great story… here is mine.I had just gotten laid off from a job at a DC beltway bandit technology firm (sales of their Wang software was not going as well as they expected and they had just bought or leased a parallel processing super computer). Anyhow, I was on unemployment for the first time in my life. Things were really tight. I was paying rent with rolls of coins.At the supermarket I was cutting back costs anywhere I could. I would pass up the meat isle and just buy beans and rice because I could afford a weeks worth of beans and rice for the same price as I could buy a day or two supply of meat. But I still wanted meat.I was passing a McDonalds one day and noticed that I could get a cheeseburger for 59 cents. For the first time, the economics of this hit me. I could not afford to buy hamburger, buns, pickles, cheese and mustard and catsup. Yet I could afford 59 cents to buy these things at McDonalds. I did not have to pay salaries, transportation costs, building upkeep, trash disposal, nor did I need sophisticated kitchen equipment like the kind a McDonalds was using. I could grill my hamburger on the cheep, as compared to what it cost McDonalds to grill a hamburger. Yet, no matter how I tried, I could not get the math to come out. I COULD NOT MAKE A CHEESEBURGER, ON MY OWN, FOR 59 CENTS!It was then and there that I realized that McDonalds was cheating somehow. I didn’t know how, but I decided that I could no longer support an industry where the economics where so unfair. So I stopped eating meat immediately. I had this youthful vision that my absence would be noticed, that without my patronage McDonalds would suffer, economically, and that their business model would eventually change. LOL!!!

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By: Sherri - PDX Yogini

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