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July 16, 2005
another shopping experience
i ventured out to score barf brand laundry detergent ("super active" "flower fragrance") today, which they only sold in mega-packets of sixteen boxes at a time (for ~€2,50 total) and i donated half to mark who loved it too but i still have so much barf that it's not funny (yet somehow it is). it was this shop where i probably looked like some improbable alien so i got a good amount of attention from sincere :O to some right nasty glares, and this maybe bangladeshi fellow at the counter who i paid to for the stuff took the money, bagged the stuff, and kept my barf hostage, drilling me with a somewhat quixotic if polite manner in minced and mangled english as to where i was from, what on earth finland even was (more precisely if it was close to new zealand and ireland) how i'd liked kuwait, like the traditional arab people, good? and i had to pull this black-belt level gesture on him where i said great talking to you, shook his hand, yanked, thus sufficiently disorienting the elderly immigrant, grabbed my barf bag and ran.
Posted by matti at July 16, 2005 02:26 AM
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well, kuwait isnt that expensive!
Posted by: moey at July 29, 2005 03:41 AM
it's not? so.. what's the street price for a bottle of black label? >:D
but generally, yeah, no, which is good because i was so sold on barf that i'd have dropped anything to get a hold of a few packages. it's made for some truly surprised "hey i got you something from kuwait.. namely, laundry detergent!!!" type moments, which :D
Posted by: m at July 31, 2005 02:37 PM