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A full-time stay-at-home-son has had his mind blown this afternoon while doing the grocery shop for the family home.

Dylan Dewhurst, of Betoota Grove, said he was sent down to the shops this afternoon with his red-plates flapping on the front and back of his mother’s late-model Volvo SUV when he discovered just how much saffron costs.

Speaking to our reporter in the deli section, while we both watched the attendant eat a raw cocktail frankfurt in plain view of customers, the 24-year-old student explained that he’d been given a list of things to buy for dinner – one of which was a vial of saffron.

“It damn near blew my socks off,” he said.

“For a few strands of a flower? $12? You’ve got to be joking me, man,”

“Can you make saffron rice without it? You can get like two schooners at the Afghan Club for $12.”

However, just over 48 hours ago, Dewhurst was bumping down Blueridge Road in the Old City District in a late model Subaru while he counted out $300 in front of a drug dealer and his friend in the back seat.

Dylan told The Advocate this unprompted before he want back to complaining about the shopping list.

“It’s almost like she thinks she’s made of money,” he said.

“If she didn’t give me her Amex card, I wouldn’t be buying any saffron, that’s for sure.”

More to come.

