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Asteroid Donating Member (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 09:44 PM
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A funny thing happened at the book store
Ok so I went to the bookstore in the mall today, and took my younger brother along with me. My brother has been sick with a virus, but seemed well enough to tag along. Anyway while inside the book store, browsing at the new edition section my brother threw up all over the rack. When I looked at what it was he threw up on I noticed that it was Sean Hannity's book "Let Freedom Ring." I hope this is an omen. Anyway the manager of the store got so angry, until she saw it was a kid that had done the damage. She tried to make me purchase the book, but I refused.

In the end she ended up throwing it in the trash, which I couldn't help but laugh at the irony. Cause that is just where that book belongs, in the trash.
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BlackVelvetElvis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 09:48 PM
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1. Ha, great story
I hope your brother felt better after yaking and appreciated the irony.
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southerngirlwriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 09:54 PM
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2. GOOD FOR YOU!!
"You break it, you buy it" is BULLSHIT.

THAT IS WHY THEY HAVE INSURANCE!!! I had a store manager try to make me buy a $75 lamp that was on a shelf at eye-level to a 3-year-old when my niece (the 3-year-old in question) bumped into the table and knocked it over. She was not being rambunctious or running around. It was an accident. It happens. She said I was breaking the law. I whipped out my cell phone and said, "Great. I'll call the police on myself RIGHT FUCKING NOW." She backed down; she knew she was full of shit.

Of course, my attitude is for real accidents. If you INTENTIONALLY break a merchant's property, that's very different.

Good for you for standing up!!
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Red_Storm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 09:55 PM
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3. I went to the B&N store near my job yesterday and........

his new book was widely displayed as soon as you walked in, impossible to miss.......I felt the same symptoms as your brother........
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Asteroid Donating Member (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:02 PM
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4. He's feeling better now
I'm just glad he did it in the store and not in my car, cause he would have been walking home then.
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Red_Storm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:10 PM
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6. that's good that he's feeling better but...........

next time he is ill you could maybe, casually place him by the ann coulter section of the bookstore........
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aquaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:07 PM
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5. Sorry your brother is sick.....
But that is the funniest thing that I have heard all day.
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Asteroid Donating Member (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:22 PM
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9. I will see what I can do about Ann Coulter
I don't know if I will be able to go back to that store for a while. The manager there rolls her eyes at me everytime I ask for something on anti-bush, or anti- right wing.
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Bundbuster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:14 PM
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7. I hope your brother has started
a new political protest movement - call it a "puke-in."

I'll volunteer to draw up a target list.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:16 PM
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8. That's hilarious!
Is it me, or does Hannity look totally high on the cover? I saw it yesterday and laughed out loud in the middle of the store. :shrug:
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