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As she stepped into the drug store, no one
was in sight. She marched right to the counter
and pounded on the little bell. “Hey! Can I get
some help here?”
From behind her she heard a hoarse
whisper. “Lady, we’re being robbed. Get on
the floor.”
She turned to see a man, dressed in a white
lab coat, acting like a doormat. Aunt Hazel
figured this was all part of an elaborate
Halloween joke. She was not in any mood to be
teased. “Of course we are being robbed,” she
replied, “this is a pharmacy. Everyone is being
robbed. That is what pharmaceutical companies
do.”
“No, lady,” he countered. “We are really
getting robbed.”
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