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Timing

I walk into the Banana Republic Men on 17th and 5th and notice my shoe is untied. I stop near the entrance and lean over to tie it. Elapsed time in store: five seconds.

As I am bent over, a sales clerk swiftly approaches me, and asks: "Are you finding everything okay?"

Posted by David Wertheimer on August 1, 2007 10:39 PM |

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