Subject: A little shopping never killed anybody
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 20:24:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Denise Keppel <dkeppel@yahoo.com>

Leary... this is, of course, your fault.  If you had
just kept your mouth shut, I would have never thought
of it.

Luba, hope this at least gets a smile from you.
Payback for what the idea did to me.

    "We've got what we've come for," Domino stood up with
a grin.  "Now let's pay for it and leave."

    Nate handed the cart to her and stood back.  "By all
means, let's pay for it and go."

    Dom looked at him and shoved the basket in his arms.
"I didn't bring my money."  Cable opened his wallet
and started to pull out some cash.  "The pump was
seventy-five and, with everything else added on, you
don't have enough green," she pointed out.

    Cable handed her his credit card.  "Take it," he
insisted.

    "It's got your name on it." She handed it back to
him.

    "I'll fix it," he offered.

    Domino rolled her eyes and firmly slapped the card 
in his hand.  "Dammit Cable, just buy the stuff and let's
get going."

    He shook his head.  "There is no way in this
flongging world I'm going to walk up to that woman and
buy a breast pump for Kitty!"  He almost pleaded with
his girlfriend, sending her puppy dog eyes.  She shook
her head.  "I'll bodyslide out of here without paying
for it...  I'll go to the future and find a good one
in a junk heap..."  He was sweating this one.

    Again Domino refused.  "Four words, Cable.  You 
in a tu-tu.  Imagine how your father would take it."

    Knowing when he had been outclassed, Cable sighed 
and walked grumpily up to the cash register.  He'd erase
the woman's memories as soon as she'd rung him up.  But
nothing could ever hope to erase the embarrassment of
"It's so sweet to see a granddad buying stuff for his
grandkids."

    Snarling, he shoved the credit card into his pocket
and stormed out of the store.