I'm tired of the lie that Midwesterners are straight-taahkin', haanest-dealin', friendly blond goyim. Midwesterners are mean!
anarqueso got me thinking about this with her post about community. Readers, I am rarely depressed. I mean, I get "depressed", like when it's gray outside and I'm bored and broke, and I have a hunger headache and I see a poster for
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Heh. When me and MNBXH (ask Constintina) moved here, we were in Circuit City or some such place looking for a phone-jack-related item. A woman in there was helping us, and said, "We don't have that, but you may want to try next door."
"What's next door?" asks MNBXH.
She knits her brows together in confusion. "The next building over," she clarifies.
"Oh," says MNBXH. "I mean, what is the name of the business you are referring to. See, I don't work here five days a week, so I don't know everything that you know."
Only in reality the phrasing was much funnier, and the meanness was much more subtle. The woman actually laughed after he said it.
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anyway. i hope it works out better for you in the coming months.
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