Megs' amazing newspaper adventures

Well, yesterday, Jan comes up with a bright idea.

“Why don’t you write a consumer column?” she asks me.

So now, I’m writing a consumer column for the new consumer page. I need to come up with a name for it. Any bright ideas out there?

My first column deals with convenience foods that you can prepare in the microwave – baked potatoes, fish, Easy Mac, etc. I spent the morning wandering the aisles of Food City searching for products. I’m positive the store people thought I was a competitor there to do price comparisons.

I brought one of the microwaveable baked potatoes for lunch and Jan told me to take it to the photographers so we could get a picture of it. So, I walked back and told David Crigger, the chief photographer, that I had an assignment of grave importance. I dug the potato out of my lunch bag and presented it to them.

Andre, one of the other photographers, peeked out from behind David’s shoulder. “It’s a potato,” he announced.

“Yes,” I replied.

“With plastic wrap on it,” said David McGee, one of the metro reporters.

Gooood. Nice to know that the male species can identify various articles of produce. I told the guys I needed a picture of the potato with its wrap on and left it with them. I’ll be back for it. After all, it is my lunch - along with the microwave fish.

I have a feeling writing this consumer column is going to be a grand adventure!