Saturday

[bobquasit]

Let's see...Teri and Sebastian picked me up on Friday, and we stopped at L.L. Bean. We spent more than I'd planned. We got a reasonably-priced backpack for him, and got it monogrammed with his initials for an additional $6; Teri hated the style Sebastian picked, and I have to admit that it's fairly awful. But he needs to be able to make his own

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[donnad]

I don't know about the LL Bean guarantee when it comes to sneakers, but I do know that we bought a wool sweater at LL Bean once. After having and wearing it for something like five years, G snagged it on a piece of metal and tore a hole in it. We figured we had nothing to lose so walked into the store in Maine with the sweater and showed it to them. They did not have the same sweater in stock anymore but gave him the option of several others to replace it. We left with a brand new sweater.

[bobquasit]

That's cool! I have to admit that I might feel weird about making a claim on the warranty, myself. Unless it was clearly a manufacturing defect.

Did they ask you any questions about the sweater?

[donnad]

No questions asked, Not even how did that happen.
We just took it in and they gave us a new one. It was a "what have we got to lose" moment that worked out.

[klyfix]

On whole season DVD sets: It helps when something is sufficiently mass-market that the price ends up lower. I note that anime season or series box sets tend to be more expensive than regular stuff; the most extreme I recall being for Blood+ (a sort of vampire anime) where the nice people at Sony seem to think that over $100 is a good price.

There's an Auntie Annie's in South Station; I've had pretzel dogs from them a few times, although not for some time since my mobility has been a bit limited. They're good. Oddly, I've yet to have a proper soft pretzel (to the best of my possibly flawed memory at least); not sure why.

[bobquasit]

I've been to the Antie Annie's in South Station too - but not for a while.

Do you happen to remember if they had frozen lemonade? I was wondering if they only had it in Rhode Island, since it's an RI thing. Although slush is pretty much the same thing anyway. The machines at the Emerald Mall AA's said "Dutch Ice", which I'd never heard of...

[klyfix]

Hmm, I don't recall; I wasn't paying much attention to beverages alas when I stopped there.

I took a brief look to see if I could find "Dutch Ice" via search engine and got references to the Annie's stuffs nutritional value, hockey, ice cream, and some supposed sexual practice. Not terribly enlightening.