>>Meanwhile, way back in my college days, I worked at a dept. store. One day I was cutting thru housewares and spotted a couple trying out toaster-ovens. Literally. They had a loaf of bread, had found an outlet, and were sitting on the floor taste-testing the results.
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>>Wasn't my department, so I didn't say anything.
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>Good job they weren't testing out the bathroom furniture!

And it's good they didn't know that the Serbian expression for a double bed is "marital bed". A thing to do in furniture stores there is to ask whether they have extramarital ones.