A woman gave me the “evil eye” at work today.<\/p>\n
I didn’t experience it personally. I didn’t see it. My assistant manager, however, did.<\/p>\n
My sister came by the store in the afternoon. She took a look through our used DVD selection which fills a single dump bin at the store. A few weeks ago, though, the used DVD selection filled the dump bin and<\/i> a six-foot gondola. What happened to the rest of the DVDs?<\/p>\n
The week I went to Baltimore the company asked for a transfer. Five hundred DVDs were sent back to the company’s distribution center. The store kept about a hundred. At a guess, I’d say the company did a “sideways sale”–selling the merchandise to another company for resale. Suffice to say, the transfer of DVDs cleaned out the selection tremendously.<\/p>\n
My sister commented on the paucity of the DVD selection. The company asked for the DVDs back, I said. “We received a list–send back these DVDs. I threw in Passion of the Christ<\/i> for good measure; I didn’t need four copies of that<\/i> in my store.”<\/p>\n
I must have said it with some disdain because the woman standing behind my sister at the register area gave me an “evil eye” for not according Mel Gibson’s three-hour snuff film, to borrow Stan Marsh’s phrase, its proper due.<\/p>\n
Oh, well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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