Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (12/16/86)
Really-From: Vulture of Light <trainor@CS.UCLA.EDU>
The setting is a Music+ store on Wilshire Blvd. Racks of
assorted videos, albums, and CDs can be seen. A cheery
chap, let's call him Biff, is looking through the racks.
A store clerk flanks Biff on his left.
clerk: May i take your backpack?
Biff: You can't take anything of mine!
clerk: I'm sorry but it's store policy. Please give me your backpack.
<<Biff flips through racks continuing to ignore clerk>>
clerk: Sir. Backpacks are not allowed in the store.
Biff: <<pointing to a woman>> Why don't you take her bag?
clerk: Purses are ok, backpacks are not.
Biff: It's a purse.
clerk: No it isn't--it's a backpack.
<<Biff flips through racks continuing to ignore clerk>>
clerk: Would you like to leave the store?
Biff: No, I would not.
<<clerk walks away frustrated>>
clerk: A...
Biff: Look, <<interrupting clerk>> the law does not define what a purse is,
so why don't you go away.
clerk: Oh my god.
Score--Biff 1, clerk 0. Clerk follows Biff around the store for 10 minutes.
Tomorrow, Biff vs. the Clerk, pt. II.