Every week or two, I spend a few minutes idly browsing the local outlet of an enormous retailer, hoping to find a good pair of boots, a plain sweater, or a replacement bookbag. Along with the usual discounted or discontinued goods, they also offer returned items. Sometimes these returns are complete with monogram; sometimes the monogram is woefully and obviously mispelled.
And that is how, poking through the messenger bags and bookbags, I came thiiiiis close to buying a slate gray messenger bag embroidered with the intersection of sci-fi geek and grammar geek: Doctor Whom.
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I’m sorry. Are you saying you didn’t buy it? That can’t be right.
I hear you, Jane, but it was both too pricey and not quite the right bag for me. It turns out that I value practicality and frugality over geeky humor. (I know!)
I am crushed.