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Lesson  20



              1B  GETS AN ANGRY  CALL

                   FROM CAROL





              alls  Bob: to tell him  that a customer ‘found
                1  her cookie. Bob  wants  Carol  to forget

                  ;,  but  Carol thinks it’s  very serious.  She

             es  to buy.  any  more  cookies from  Bob.





    Carol:   Bob,  a  lady  came  into  the  Village  Market  today  ranting
             and  raving.

    Bob:  |  Oh  yeah?  What  happened?


    Carol:   She  found a  blue  hair  in  her  chocolate  chip  cookie!

    Bob:     Aha.  I  can  see  how  she’d  be  taken  aback.


    Carol:   Does  anybody  in  your  family  have  blue  hair?


    Bob:     Asa  matter  of  fact,  my  son’s  girlfriend  Amber  has  blue
             hair.

    Carol:   Bob,  I  can’t  sell  your  cookies  anymore.


    Bob:  _  Aren’t  you  blowing  things  out  of  proportion?


    Carol:   The  health  department  would  throw  the  book  at  me  if
             they  found  out  about  this.


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