A butcher, who had had a particularly good day, proudly flipped his last chicken on a scale and weighed it.
“That will be $9.23,” he told the customer.
“That’s a good price, but it really is a little too small,” said the woman.
“Don’t you have anything larger?”
Hesitating, but thinking fast, the clerk returned the chicken to the refrigerator, paused a moment, then took it out again.
“This one,” he said faintly, ” will be $9.56.”
The woman paused for a moment, then made her decision…
“I know what,” she said, “I’ll take both of them!.”
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The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all. 
“Not rural sights alone,
“Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!”
