WINKLER, MB
When word got out that the Winkler Co-op had just one more chocolate letter A in stock, local Abes rushed to get their hands on it.
“Diewel! Looks like Abe Kehler beat me to it,” said Abe Wiens. “Now what I am going to snack on at the belated Wiens gathering this weekend?”
The chocolate A’s were in such short supply that some were selling for upwards of $80 in the display case at the local thrift store.
“I just hope that last A doesn’t melt,” said Abe Mierau. “There are a lot of Abes in this town who’d pay a pretty penny for it.”
Also in short supply were chocolate letter J’s due to all the Jakes in town.
“But it’s nothing like the letter A’s,” said co-op employee Susan Fehr. “And it’s not just the Abes who get those. People sometimes give them to anyone they think is a real A_____.”