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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 10:28 pm
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They ALL remodel just when you've got used to the layout!!!! I think they do it on purpose!!!!

People who stand there watching the cashier scan everything... and when the total is announced they get that "deer in the headlights" look and only then start rummaging through bags for purse or wallet...

This is, sorry to point out, also normally women.

What, do they think it was going to be free that time??

Only product I've been asked about led to an "embarassed" (but honest) response from me... the young girl scanned a packet of semolina.. and commented:

"Oh.. this is a sort of cereal isn't it? I've thought of trying it.. is it nice?"

To which I could only reply that I had never actually eaten it... but only ever used it as a "filler" in Black Powder cartridge loading....

At least the ladies in the local fabric stores are used to us "Muzzleloading rifle" guys coming in and measuring the thickness of plain cottons with vernier calipers! (Bore diameter .450.. round ball diameter .440... looking for a close weave cotton about .012 or so...)
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