<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><DIV>When I walk the hounds, I always carry pockets full of plastic bags for clean up. This evening I was walking the boys around the grassy areas bordering my husband's workplace, waiting to pick up my husband after work.</DIV>
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<DIV>A well-dressed, well-coiffed woman came out of his building on the way to her car. She stopped and eyed me and the dogs and asked in slow, measured tones: "Do you have a plastic bag?"</DIV>
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<DIV>Misreading the situation entirely, I smiled and said in a friendly tone: "Sure. Do you need one?"</DIV>
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<DIV>The woman's face fell and she said in an affronted tone: "Me???!!!! I don't need a plastic bag!!!" and hurried off to her car.</DIV>
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<DIV>I was perplexed. I had thought perhaps she had something leaking in her purse or something. It took me a moment to realize she had not been asking me a straight-up question. Another moment to realize she had probably thought I had offered her a bag in case she needed to avail herself of the grass for a quick dump herself.</DIV></div><br>
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