Got Screwed?

So, what's the moral of this story:

I am taking online classes in winter quarter. Being an studious student, I bought my text ahead of time during the winter break. School started and guess what? Yup, you got it. The prof announced that the required text is the NEWEST (2006) edition! But of COURSE I've bought the 2005 edition. New! From Amazon.com! And of COURSE I was so eagerly waiting for school to start I've started reading my text ahead of time and already highlighted the first few pages. Regardless of that, hubby probably threw away the box it came in and the invoice etc. So now I had to buy ANOTHER text book for the same class. The two books combined cost more than tuition for the entire quarter. Go figure.

The moral of this story:

Early birds get the worms; late worms don't get eaten by birds. (And I am, in this analogy, the early worms.)

Or maybe the moral of this story is just that:

Buy textbooks at outrageous marked up prices from local college bookstore!