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At the pastry counter: An employee stands at the display case picking the nuts off the top of a bear claw. "Yum," she says to another employee. "Are these almonds?" "Yeah, I think so." "They're good," says employee Number One and she pops another into her mouth.
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Two women in their 90s (really) resting on a bench.
Woman #1: Arterial Sclerosis. It runs in my family.
Woman #2: Bad stuff.
Woman #1: I really have to watch my diet.
If I were Woman #1 I'd have a Big Mac on the way home.
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I'm looking more and more like a mallwalker. One of those gray haired women in cardigans and white tennis shoes who walk the perimeter of the mall 20 times. I once joined a writing group where everyone was writing a novel. So I did too. I mean, how hard could it be? My book was called The Mallwalkers. It was a mystery. It's on a lower shelf in my writing room. Right where it should be.
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5 comments:
Hey, keep your paws off my bear claws. Yucko!
I say you post the book here on your blog, a page at a time!
Good idea, although I'm trying to intice readership. If you're willing to read it then ok...alright...
Hey Coop, next time you're in Mervyns, I could really use one of those fancy high thread-count sheet sets!
Thanks!
You got it, Katie. I hear they have "kits" where you just buy the thread and kind of assemble it yourself! (isn't Mervyn's swell?)
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