Sunday, September 17, 2006

Office Depot Moment

I was at Office Depot the other day, making a purchase for my students. After I paid, the clerk told me to have a good day and be sure to visit them online. I smiled and thanked her and took my bag from her hand. She then repeated, with a light but somehow frenzied emphasis, the part about remembering to visit them online and I found my gaze travelling from her frozen, faux-encouraging grin to the nearby manager. I lied a bit loudly that I would and thanked her with more obvious and perky gratitude and left feeling uncomfortable.

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