>>>"Would customers kindly refrain from sitting on the meat slicer, as we are getting a little behind in our orders"
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>>Now that's where my wife, in her previous incarnation as a health inspector, would close the shop immediately. There's no way customers can come close to any place where food is dealt with - they are separated by a counter even here (and believe me, she's seen a few things here that simply wouldn't have passed when she was in charge).
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>Are you being all Serbian on me now? Read the message properly - it's a joke/pun.
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>Tip: I don't know if it's the same in America, but "behind" is another word for "buttocks"

I got that, no problem - just didn't have anything to say there. But the idea that a meat slicer would be accessible to customers (' behinds) sounds just incredible.