When did the grocery store get religious candles? We were at Tops last night, and I found a whole shelf of these roughly 10-inch-tall cylindrical glass candles painted with weird old-school Catholic scenes. They had Virgin-Mary-on-the-Half-Shell, but also that awful oft-seen depiction of Christ, stripped to the waist, eyes towards heaven, wearing the crown of thorns and hemorraging all over the damn place. So I picked that one up, held it above my head, and screamed down the aisle to Melinda and Holly, "HEY GUYS! YOU NEED A BLEEDING JESUS?" The middle-aged woman standing next to me perusing taco seasoning didn't look particularly amused. Of course, I couldn't feel too bad for long. Holly outdid me by attempting to sample various beauty products in the health aisle and consequently ending up with her hands coated in shaving foam. She cleaned it off by sneaking away and shoving her hands into a vat of packages of frozen meat. Profoundly dull, my ass.
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