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This week has been a very slow moving one. This whole being at work, alert and responsive for eight hours is for the birds. I woke up this morning and was like, “damn, it’s only Wednesday.” The day was helped along by lunch with Natalie, Charlie and another gal we like.

I spent a part of my afternoon chasing down a treadmill that is on sale at Canadian Tire this week. I called four stores and none of them had it in stock. Finally, I found a store not far from S’s office that had it. She went to the store and had the run-around when the sales guy refused to sell her the treadmill.

First he told her that they didn’t have any, and then he said she was too tall for the particular machine. Then he tried to convince her she wouldn’t like it because it doesn’t go very fast. Finally, he took her to where the treadmills were and took the one she wanted to the cashier. All the while telling her that if there were any problems with the treadmill, she’d have to go directly to the manufacturer, Canadian Tire would not deal with it.

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