Would you like a value meal? "Three spoons please," said Kari, "Three spoons." Is there anything else? Three spoons, said Kari Tjaden, my 15 year old daughter, in front of four other people walking thru the local fast food drive up window late last night in Vermillion, S.D. "We looked all over the hotel for spoons but couldn't find any," said my daughter laughing. Imagine what the talk of that fast-food joint was after she left. You didn't even order something on the dollar menu?

