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Dean is at the cashier's desk at an art supply store. Image text reads: "At the art supply store, I suddenly began to pass out. As the room shifted around me, I sank to the floor in a cold sweat. The clerk was good about it." The clerk says to Dean: "Are you hiding?"

Fainting in the aisles

ByDean Mang-Wooley August 6, 2008October 16, 2016 2008, Calgary
Post Tags: #2008#art supply#Calgary#clerk#faint#hiding#pass out

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