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Gertrude gazed in wonder at the pompous condescending clerk as she corrected Gerties assumptions, “Gertrude? No, no, no… we don’t use names here! It’s all too personal, we give you a number, it’s more equitable that way. To save time we also assume you are stupid and don’t actually want a job. Is there anything else you don’t understand?”.
so that’s why the ‘5’ appeared in my last headline…
I hate having to slap around the old-timers first thing in the morning.
Let’s say that grudknows thought she was entering this on the new Scrineblog, where stories are not only welcome, but encouraged. Besides, that way I won’t have to set down my coffee.
Nah, I geuinely cheated as the conversation was within the sentence… thought I *might* get away with it on a technicality.
Just testing the boundaries dad!
(I did think after posting it that I should have put it in the new scrineblog - I’ll be good next time)
And not a single punch thrown. We’re a diplomatic bunch (almost wrote “dimplomatic”), we Scriners.