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- From: psp@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (P.S. Powledge)
- Subject: Re: LOOKIN' FOR NYC QUEERS...
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:53:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.175317.26684@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
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- In article <wfC8opu00iV1Q14dMf@andrew.cmu.edu> dk24+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Jason Kyle) writes:
- >gentle readers...
- >
- >just heard an incredibly funny piece on NPR this morning called
- >Santaland Diaries and it was written and read by a guy named David
- >Sadaris.
- >
- Good lord, this was so damned funny I was howling even as I drove. _The
- Santaland Diaries_ concerned the author's stint as an elf in Macy's Santaland,
- and it was truly brilliant.
-
- It made me think of some of my own stints in the service industry. When I
- was waitressing my way through college, I remember the customer who came
- into the resaurant at the height of the Sunday brunch, and held up her
- fork. "Honey," she said, "would you please be a darling and bring
- me the fork with four prongs?" "What?" I leaned forward, sure that I had
- misheard her. "The fork with four prongs," she repeated. "I know you have
- one, because I got that fork here once before. Go back and look, will you?
- I just can't eat food with three prongs."
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