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The ball was what a sports team kept dropping. This losing team’s game was what a fan stopped watching.

Posted on October 5, 2016 by zfthrimej

Shopping in a store made the fan feel better: this was what she told to a clerk at a register.

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An overpriced toy is what a 4-year-old hungers.

Posted on August 20, 2016 by zfthrimej

The response from that child’s parent is “Bummer.” While the grown-up won’t buy it, the 4-year-old pleads. Her parent wisely knows what that child doesn’t need.

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In sidewalk pocket nests, ravenous flocks want deals/selection best

Posted on November 7, 2014 by zfthrimej

(yet i thought they’d be thankful for what they have and digest)… Intriguing is to learn whatever it is that’s trending (which can also be a reminder to NOT become a lemming)…

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“I’d like to DOUBLE BAG YOUR FACE” is what the store clerk wanted to say

Posted on July 28, 2014 by zfthrimej

to the persnickety fickle shopper in the store after-hours not going away. But he never said that out loud to that customer’s face; if he did, this would escalate into a more stressful case…

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A long line waiting and eager to consume things that are not really needed is a many-headed serpent

Posted on December 16, 2013 by zfthrimej

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If lines of the barcode are strings pulling numbers, could numbers be puppets/consumerzombie/suckers

Posted on June 8, 2013 by zfthrimej

Posted in adversity, anecdote, answer, art, arts and crafts, belief, bored, comedy, counseling, culture, curious, dork, drama, entertainment, everyday life, hope, huh, humor, i don't know, ideas, imagine, improv, journey, maybe, monster, motivation, nerd, observation, optimism, poems, poetry, question, recovering, rhymes, ridiculous, scars, stories, style, subversion, teeth, therapy, thinking, weird, what the fuck, yeah right | Tagged "work", adversity, analysis, anecdote, answers, art, barcode, brains, buying, clerk, clues, code, comedy, conspiracytheory, consumerism, creativewriting, culture, design, dork, dystopia, entertainment, faceless, FightClub, geek, hints, hope, humor, ideas, idon'tknow, illustration, individual, individuality, information, life, lines, living, masses, materialism, maybe, mobmentality, nameless, nerd, numbers, overcome, people, perspective perception, philosophy, pictures, poems, poetry, political, puppets, questions, really?, records, retail, rhymes, ridiculous, scan, sciencefiction, seriously?, shopping, social, society, songwriting, story, storytelling, stupid, style, theory, things, thinking, thoughts, trippy, weird, why?, writing, yeahright, zombies | Leave a comment

A sign on the top of a store said “SAVE MAX”; so I stepped inside that store but there was no one who needed to be rescued.

Posted on April 26, 2012 by zfthrimej

Plus, there was no one in that store named Max. weird.

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Coupon or Coup Pawn?

Posted on April 11, 2012 by zfthrimej

“I forgot my coupon.” A lot of customers say that after they put their items on the checkout counter in a store. And a lot of customers say that in a very surprised way that makes the coupon seem like … Continue reading →

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One shopper said “That is so cool!” while the other replied “Why do we need that?”

Posted on March 15, 2012 by zfthrimej

Intriguing conflict between what can be better versus what we already have.

Posted in curious, everyday life, health, healthy, huh, humor, i don't know, joke, memoir, observation, poems, poetry, question, random writing, rhymes, ridiculous, things, thinking | Tagged answer, ask, asking, awareness, belonging, better, buying, change, comedy, common sense, consumer, consumerism, control, conversations, cool, customer, customer service, debate, dilemma, discipline, discussion, everyday life, evolution, evolving, excess, food for thought, gratitude, greed, head vs heart, health, hip, hipster, hope, humor, improvement, joke, learning, lessons, living, materialism, memoir, mind vs matter, more, moving backward?, moving forward, necessity, needs, new, new vs old, now, observation, obvious, old, overheard, overheard conversations, ownership, poems, poetry, possession, products, progress, pros and cons, question, random, really?, retail, retail therapy, rhymes, ridiculous, sale, sale items, satisfaction, self-reliance, sentimental value, shopping, store, style, style vs substance, thankful, things, thoughts, today, today vs tomorrow, tomorrow, trend, trendy, true story, wanting more, wants, weighing options, weighing pros and cons, what the fuck, why do we need that?, why?, willpower | Leave a comment

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An overpriced toy is what a 4-year-old hungers.

In sidewalk pocket nests, ravenous flocks want deals/selection best

A long line waiting and eager to consume things that are not really needed is a many-headed serpent

Coupon or Coup Pawn?

One shopper said “That is so cool!” while the other replied “Why do we need that?”

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