Vocabulary On My Mind

There once was a man named Mr. Greeb, who believed that he was very altruistic and disliked those who were disputatious.  Unfortunately he was a teacher and often encountered students like this.  His students knew that their teacher disliked these people, but thought that he was vapid and so were purposely disputatious, as well as insolent, recalcitrant, and pugnacious.  Mr. Greeb also disliked anything colloquial, succinct or otherwise concise, so he made his students write everything out in complete detail and accepted nothing except complete sentences.  His students also found, after having Mr. Greeb for no less than a week, that Mr. Greeb was garrulous, not to mention his bad habit of deprecating his students quite harshly.  None of Mr. Greeb's students had ever lauded or extolled him when talking to their friends or parents.  The students felt like they were a petty and trivial part of Mr. Greeb's life, and they were correct.  Mr. Greeb had a very big secret.

Mr. Greeb was actually an extreme coupon-er.  All of Mr. Greeb's family and friends (he had few of both) knew how much he cared about his couponing and rarely described him as anything other than parsimonious, frugal and thrifty.  He was also somewhat of a pariah.  He lived in a very small house in a remote location, while still being somewhat in proximity to the grocery store where he coupon-ed.  Mr. Greeb loved his tooth paste and no one really understood why. Over the years that Greeb had coupon-ed, the aggregate amount of toothpastes that he had purchased was over 20,000.  Mr. Greeb loved his toothpaste so much it was almost as if he adulated toothpaste. What an absurd man Mr. Greeb was!