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“…So I don’t need a #2 pencil?”

Store girl: “Fraternity test”?
Store guy: I’ve been saying it that way all these years.

–K-mart, East 8th Street

  • Posted on February 4, 2006
  • Lower East Side, People, Shopping, Stupidity
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