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Subject:Re: Press '1' for English From:"Lin Sims" <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> To:salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com Date:Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:37:04 -0500
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Last evening I visited the nearby "hometown" lumberyard/hardware supplier
> (i.e., not Home Depot) in search of a part to repair a toilet. Prominently
> displayed in their window and all over the store counters was the following
> sign:
>
> *Santa Clause will be here on (dates).*
> **
> I informed both the manager and the cashier about the error, boldly taking
> out my pen and scratching out the trailing 'e' on one of the posters. How
> would you have reacted?
I'd have started looking for Tim Allen and David Krumholtz.
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Lin
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