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Oh lord Tomas, I saw this pop up just as I was entering a used bookstore. I don’t usually shop on Black Friday but Thanksgiving was in Charlottesville this year (and they have great indie bookshops), I had a huge fight with my mom, there was no way I could concentrate, plus I needed to get some holiday shopping done. 🤷‍♀️ I took the spirit of the vomiting kid with me and treated the staff accordingly.

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Hey sometimes you gotta get out of the house.

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Someone needs to make a movie where a team of intrepid retail workers go back in time to stop whoever it was who first suggested it is a good idea for stores to wrap people's fucking gifts for them. It would be a blockbuster.

Oh, and thanks for the shout-out!

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You're welcome. I recently watched The Shop Around the Corner, set in the '30s, and the level of ass kissing people expected, the tyranny of the boss... It was unbelievable. I think today people want that experience because they feel treated like shit on most days. If we weren't so cruel to each other... You know.

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The title says it all! 👏

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