the way she insisted on wasting stamps on those stupid mail-order
sweepstakes that nobody he knew had ever won and which anybody
with half a brain knew were just a scam to get you to buy
magazines, cheap kitchen appliances, and totally unnecessary
products like electric sock warmers. By God, if her only had all
the money she had spent on postage mailing in those "guaranteed
winner certificates" to those big-city con artists, why he could
. . . but today was the last straw.