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carter buys shampoo

(04/22/2003; 07:04pm) - carter buys shampoo

i ran into my friend carter the other night at the checkout conter of CVS. i hadn't seen him for a while. it was nice. it turned out that we were both buying dandruff shampoo and candy bars. i was buying CVS brand dandruff shampoo, elequently named "dandruff shampoo" and a butterfinger. he was buying Dessonex and reece's peanut butter cups. he went first. the clerk rang him up, and as carter handed him the money he said to him, "is this what you thought of when your mother said you could be anything?" at first the clerk didn't seem to respond, until he lunged forward with a mean left hook from under the counter, sending carter to the unvaccumed carpet. i wanted to do something, but, i haven't really seen carter since we were kids. the clerk jumped over the counter (no small feat, for he was edging on three hundred pounds) and cowered over my beaten friend. he grabbed the collar of carter's shirt and pulled his face close to his own, sweat now dripping off his nose and said, "no."