i hate you, entertainment book.

I hate the entertainment book.

If you know what the entertainment book is, you're probably thinking "How can you hate the entertainment book? It's full of coupons, designed to save you money, and buying an entertainment book usually results in funds raised for some worthwhile organization. Shame on you! Shame on you for hating the entertainment book!"

But I hate it anyway. I've never owned an entertainment book, but I have been terrorized by it.

My mom is a big fan of the entertainment book, and has been for a long time. Every year, she'd get the entertainment book, and would immediately sit down, looking through it, plotting all the different ways she would torture us with it in the coming year. As soon as there was any discussion of doing ANYTHING, she'd slink away and come back with that damned book.

"If we're going to McDonald's, there's a buy one Filet O Fish sandwich, get one free coupon in here."

"But, no one wants a Filet O Fish sandwich. They are disgusting."

"Well then if we go to Wendy's, they have buy one get one free baked potatoes."

"Wendy's is 20 minutes away. And we have potatoes HERE."

And so it goes. The entertainment book always wants to sell you two of the thing that no one wants ONE of.

There were always two possible outcomes with the Entertaiment book. Either my dad would take one for the team and eat the Filet of Fish sandwich with grim resignation and pretend he was enjoying it, or there'd be some loophole that would prevent us from using the coupon. My mom would have already torn the coupon out of the book to present it, so she'd have to tuck it back into the book. By the end of the year, the entertainment book was falling apart - torn out coupons jutting out of every page at wild angles. My mom also puts other coupons that will never get used in there - non Entertainment book coupons, so that adds to the overall disheveled appearance of the book.

I was talking to my dad recently on the phone and we got on the topic of the Entertainment book. I told him I hated it, and that I wanted to throw it out the window of a moving car while crossing a bridge. He offered, with no hesitation "She keeps it in the driver's side door pocket in her car."

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[Mom]

I have not purchased an Entertaiment book this year!!!!!!! ANNNNNNNNND when I did I kept it in the passenger side door-take that Dan!