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Money Back Guarantee
Posted by Scribbler, Jan 2, 2009. 564 views. ID = 2191
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 | This was written after seeing long queues of people lined up at a department store service desk after Christmas. |  | This post has been awarded 27 stars by 7 readers. |  | This post is Part 4 of a writing series titled Humour / humor. |
I’m standing at the service desk in a great big queue.
There’s lots of them before me - I’m number 92.
We’re all returning goodies that were bought for Christmas Day.
We’re not completely satisfied. They’re all faulty in some way.
‘It’s little Johnny’s railway train, it won’t stay on the track.’
‘Would you like an exchange then, or d'you want your money back?’
She says she’ll take the money. The form she signs and dates.
Besides he didn’t like the train - he’d rather have some skates.
‘This shirt’s too small for Damien, he’s grown since last December.
I thought it would be big enough but I couldn’t quite remember.’
‘These nuts we bought for Uncle Fred came back.’ The note was brief –
It seems that since last Christmas they’d taken out his teeth.
Patience is a virtue - that’s what they always say
But I can think of lots of things I’d rather do today.
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Comments
Laura
Jan 3, 2009 | Had to stand in one of these lines myself, only there weren't quite that many people - the key is to wait a week or so ;-)
Great job with this, and I really like the way you summed it up!
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