Jim Munroe's Archives The batteries are $6.99. I shake my head and leave the store. We visit three other stores before I find the same item for $4, after I talk the tax off of it. As we leave, Terry shrugs his shoulder and says that he would have bought it at the first place.

"And you would have gotten ripped off." I say with a smirk.

Another shrug. "So? It's not worth the trouble."

Like hell it's not, my slightly ruffled mind retorts.