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Read Maybe Take A Gen-X-Ray To Be Sure I overhear a doctor reassuring a patient that their scan for skin cancer came ...
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Read My wife and I both do laundry, but it tends to be mainly her job, (I do most of cleaning). So, when I went downs...
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Read We used to belong to a group that would get together once a week and go for a long walk. Somewhere different eac...
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Read When The Customer Is Buffering I tell them the total, which is less than $4. They FINALLY look up from their pho...
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Read This is a story from when I was a baby and my parents were exhausted twenty-somethings still trying to figure ou...
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Read Pressed for Cash I’m processing an order pickup for this man (five shirts) that we’ve cleaned for him. Me: "That...
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Read I work at our local city library here near Dallas, TX. and I process our library materials. Adding barcodes, spi...
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Read I’m having a bad asthma attack, so I go to the hospital. They get it under control but the doctor wants me to ha...
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Read It Wasn’t Even A Split Decision I'm a web designer. A would-be client contacts me and asks if I'd be willing to ...
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Read A Storybook Ending A gaggle of six kids ran into the library while I was watching the front desk; none of them o...
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Read The Line Ends Here Caller: "Well, I'm not going anywhere unless you give me the price I want." Me: "As I have sa...
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Read Focusing On The Small Potatoes Once upon a time in a factory in Scotland, I was part of the Quality Control team...
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Read Book-ed Solid This was back in the early 2000s. A patron approached us at the front desk. Patron: "I want to use...
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Read An Uplifting Discovery My workplace has a parking garage underneath. We prefer that pedestrians not walk up or d...
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Read Draft Punk Today, I'm on the patio five feet from the bar, resetting some furniture we moved for an event about ...
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Read Making First Contact With Mom Mom: "Can you help me with [computer issue]?" Me: "Sure, when exactly?" Mom: "I wa...
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Read Mother Knows Simplest Acquaintance: "When I leave them at home, I have to tell them not to go out the front door...
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Read Their Cheese Knowledge Has Holes I used to work at a grocery store deli and had this exchange with a gentleman: ...
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Read My mother is the baby of her family by a long shot. My aunt and uncle were nine and eleven years older than her,...
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Read Through the 80s and 90s, I worked at a number of independent computer stores, doing sales of custom-configured m...