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Um… Nail Gun!

Customer: Got anything to kill a mouse?
Clerk: Hammer!
Customer: Yeah, tried that.

–True Value Hardware Store, Carroll Gardens

Overheard by: I Prefer A Circular Saw

  • Posted on December 16, 2021
  • Animals & Nature, Clerks, Customers, Default, Questions, Store, Violence
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