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Fan Declares: "Nine Dollars For A Beer and Hot Dog is a Complete Rip-off"
Was Purchase Made Under Duress?
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SAN FRANSISCO, CA - Milton Delvecchio, attending the Giants-Cardinals game declared, "Nine dollars for a beer and hot dog is a complete rip-off." The clerk said nothing except "thank you" which further flummoxed Delvecchio.
A rather hyperbolic Delvecchio explained, "You shouldn't have to take out a second mortgage to eat and drink at the ballgame."
Delvecchio's friend Perry Duncan, noticed his friend agitated when he returned.
"He was complaining quite a bit about the price. I had to agree with him. That is pretty much why I didn't get anything except a frozen lemonade, which was still pretty steep. I think he even said something like, 'It's a good dog, and the beer is cold, but it ain't worth nine dollars.'"
Unfortunately for Delvecchio, a second helping of hot dog and beer four innings later for the same nine-dollar price seemed to indicate that he thought that it was in fact worth nine dollars.
But Delvecchio offered this explanation, "What am I supposed to do. It's not like I can go down the street and pick up a dog. They get you to the game and then they force you to pay these high prices.
"It's outrageous," added Delvecchio, as he downed his third beer of the afternoon.
PacBell Park officials confirmed the seemingly high price paid by Delvecchio. They denied, however, Delvecchio's claim that he was forced to buy anything.
"We will look in to and see if any of our ushers, or anyone else employed by the park, in any way forced Delvecchio, through threats of physical harm, ejection, or otherwise, into buying the two hot dogs and three beers," assured Director of Concessions Mandy Formosa.
"However, at this time we have no proof that any coercion was used and that Delvecchio, in fact, bought the items of his own volition."
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©2000 Copyright David Oliver
DISCLAIMER: These stories are not true. No really. It's all just a joke, you know for fun.
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