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June 18, 2013 I brought my car in to the dealer this weekend for some routine maintenance. I expected a $40 oil change; what I got cost me almost $200. I read the receipt but I am still not sure what they did. Is “Kryex” even a word? And I am not entirely convinced that my air freshener needed a 500 mile servicing. Anyway, I was sitting in the waiting room. It was about 9:30 in the morning and the room was about half full. Including me, there were five of us, all fairly spread out. Two were sitting at the table, using their laptops and taking advantage of the free wi-fi.   One was sitting in a corner using his iPhone for, I think, a game in which small blue blobs eat small red blobs. The fourth was sitting in a chair against the side wall and reading a magazine, and I was sitting against another wall splitting my time between using my iPod (also taking advantage of the free wi-fi) and watching Sports Center on the huge wall-mounted flat screen. Do you know what the main mission of Sports Center is? It is showing people holding up signs at various events that say “Sports Center is next.”                        I was sitting not far from the front door, which was propped open to give us a breeze since the day was warm and a little humid. It was not too uncomfortable unless you were a large man, both fat and tall, wearing a long sleeve shirt, unbuttoned, over a sweat stained t-shirt, with a small baseball cap over a large, round, bald head,  and carrying a small bag of groceries. This was the man who walked down the street, saw the open door and empty chairs, and sat down next to me for a break. There were four or five other chairs empty but the one next to me was closest to the door and by all appearances this was not a man who liked to move much. I had my hat on the chair and he stood in front of it, nodded, and I removed it so this uninvited man with no business in the dealership could sit down. I picked up my iPod and suddenly became very occupied with looking occupied. He did not take the hint. “You know how far the Key Food is from here?” I grunted that it was maybe four blocks away. “Three blocks, man, three blocks. But in this heat it feels like about thirty six or forty-one.” I had no desire to talk to him but he had a habit of tapping me on the arm as he spoke. I suspect he developed that trait over years and years of people ignoring him when he spoke to them. “I was trying to return this bottle of mustard,” he said and shook his shopping bag, “but the manager gave me a hard time.” OK, now I was interested, and not just because this story was bound to be entertainingly stupid. Here was a large fat man with a bald head talking about food. Did I mention that he was black?   Yes, the face was different and the guy by me had a mouth far too small for his face, but in all other respects I felt as if Norm Snackmunch had come out of an Allan Keyes blog and sat right down next to me. “I had two bottles of Gulden’s spicy brown mustard but one wasn’t spicy enough.” His story went that he had bought two bottles of spicy mustard and one was fine, perfectly spicy, but the other was not spicy at all, but kind of mild, and he wanted to return it. (When he asked me, I replied that I had no idea what would make a bottle of spicy mustard turn mild. Bad batch? I dunno.) He brought the bottle back to the store and told his story to the manager. For your sake, I have condensed this story but had I continued to write it verbatim, it would have been full of pauses, uh’s, and lots of repetition. This man was not a born storyteller. As for me, on the one hand I wanted to know what happened at the store with the mustard, but on the other, stronger, saner hand, I really just wanted to hear my name called that my car was ready. The man asked me, again, what could go wrong with mustard (still had no idea), why wouldn’t the manager give him an exchange (no idea) and if it was still hot outside (no idea.) Then, while talking about how much he loved G

GEORGE PLIMPTONAS SEEN IN:'Just Shoot Me'"A&E Biography: Nina Van Horn"&'The Simpsons'"I'm Spelling As Fast As I Can"From Wikipedia:George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, editor, actor, and gamesman. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review.Television appearances:Plimpton! The Man on the Flying Trapeze, (documentary), himself, ABC, February 1971Mouseterpiece Theater, host, himself, Disney Channel, 1983–1984The Civil War, reading the diary of New Yorker, George Templeton Strong, 1990Wings, "The Shrink," Dr. Grayson 1994Voice, Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns, PBS 1994Married... with Children, 200 Episode Special Host "Best O' Bundy" 1995ER, playing "John Truman Carter, Sr.," 1998 and 2001Saturday Night Live, as himself, uncredited, 1999 and 2002. In the March 13 episode of Saturday Night Live Season 1, he is one of the audience cutaway shots (usually featured in the early seasons with comedic and fictitious non-sequitur captions as to whom the audience member was, or what they did). He is labelled as having "Roomed with Wendy Yoshimura".A Nero Wolfe Mystery, playing various roles in 10 episodes, 2001–2002The Simpsons, playing himself in the episode "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can", originally aired February 16, 2003Just Shoot Me, playing himself in the show's A&E Biography of fictional character 'Nina Van Horn', 2003Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, pitchman, himself, released by Oldsmobile in late 1968 for the 1969 model yearIntellivision, pitchman, himself, released by Mattel in 1979"Pop-Secret", pitchman, himself.Two for Tuesday!BCnU!

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Ray Donovan – Episode 1 – Full Video – Series Premiere via Rickey.org Here’s the full episode video of Ray Donovan Episode 1 from Showtime. Watch the series premiere now before it airs on June 30, 2013. Liev Schreiber stars as the go-to guy who makes the problems of LA’s elite disappear. Don’t miss the new SHOWTIME Original Series RAY DONOVAN, premieres June 30 at 10PM ET/PT following the new season of DEXTER, only on SHOWTIME. The Latest on Ray Donovan Ray Donovan – Episode 1 – Full Video – Series PremiereRay Donovan – Episode 1 – Video Preview – Series PremiereRay Donovan – Official Trailer All posts on Ray Donovan Follow me on Facebook! • Follow me on Google+ The Voice • American Idol • The X Factor

Teen Wolf – Season 3 Episode 4 – Video Preview – Unleashed via Rickey.org Here’s the video preview of Teen Wolf Season 3 Episode 4: “Unleashed” on MTV. OMG I love this show! Teen Wolf Season 3 Episode 4 Video Teen Wolf Season 3 Episode 4 Video Teen Wolf Season 3 Episode 4 Video Teen Wolf 3×04 Promo Teen Wolf 3×04 Promo – Scott tries to prevent a deadly confrontation; Stiles defends the werewolves. Original Air Date: Jun 24, 2013 The Latest on Teen Wolf Teen Wolf – Season 3 Episode 4 – Video Preview – UnleashedTeen Wolf – Season 3 Episode 2 – Full Video – Chaos RisingTeen Wolf – Recap: Werewolf ThunderdomeTeen Wolf – Season 3 Episode 3 – Video Preview – FirefliesTeen Wolf – Season 3 – Episode 1 – Full Video All posts on Teen Wolf Follow me on Facebook! • Follow me on Google+ The Voice • American Idol • The X Factor

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