Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked why he thought Mike hated him, Derfner replied: 'The teabag. I've thought you hated me for a year because of the tea bag...
...When Mike is under stress, he needs things to be really neat. I am not a neat person. I was trying really hard to keep things neat, but I failed," he winces. "Mike was kind of tense and the last straw was when I left a used tea-bag on his chair. He was really upset and things were just never seemed to swing back into place. We didn't room together this year...
...think you've got that $75000 a year consulting job in the bag? Not with that tie, honey. Pink paisley is out. Gone. And so are red, green, yellow, and orange. Double breasted suit? Too hip. Pantsuit? Too feminist. Nude pantyhose? Too secretarial. Loafers? Come on, boys and girls, get real. Just because you've got your resume filled to the brim, this is no time to slack off on interview apparel...
...hours later, I'm down at the local galaxy-class grocery store, in Bulk: a Manhattan of towering Lucite bins filled with steel-cut rolled oats, off- brand Froot Loops, sun-dried tomatoes, prefabricated s'mores, macadamias, French roasts and pignolias, all dispensed into your bag or bucket with a jerk at the handy Plexiglas guillotine. Not a human being in sight, just robot restocking machines trundling back and forth on a grid of overhead catwalks and surveillance cameras hidden in smoked-glass hemispheres. I stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct...
...will replace a current system that Hankinsdescribed as a "grab bag of topics [that] don'thave a rational relationship with each other...