"Dimitri" > wrote in message
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> "Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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>> If this isn't the most absurd situation I've seen
>> in a checkout line, it's close. Maybe it ties with
>> the kid who threw the phoniest temper tantrum I've
>> ever seen in front of a doormat mother who obviously
>> lost control of her kid when he was very young.
>>
>> There were two Chinese women in front of me, an
>> elderly one and a middle-aged one. The younger one
>> was translating for the older one, and as it turned
>> out, she didn't know her. She just volunteered to
>> translate, because the older woman didn't speak
>> any English at all.
>>
>> As I stood there and learned more of the story,
>> it appeared the older woman was trying to return
>> a watch battery. She had the original packaging
>> for the battery, and the watch that the battery
>> was put into, but the problem was that the battery
>> was inside the watch. Nobody knew how to get the
>> battery out of the watch, and the clerk didn't want
>> to give a refund without getting the battery back.
>>
>> Fortunately, the clerk rang up my bottle of beer
>> and can of olives while the women were making their
>> case for a refund. I don't know how it was resolved,
>> but I did give the poor clerk a smile in sympathy
>> with her dilemma.
>
> Go here and click on "maninline'
>
> http://bargswan.multiply.com/video/i.../maninline.wmv
>
> Or google "maninline video".
>
> :-)
>
> One of the best I have seen.
>
>
> --
> Old Scoundrel
>
> (AKA Dimitri)
>
Good one!....Mandy Patinkin right?