My friend Jasper had an interesting story to relay to me over MSN. Here it is:

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well, I left work at just before 2PM...I had been feeling nauseous all day, so I left. My boss was totally fine with it....I hadn't missed a day of work since I started a year ago this week (how fitting).

so...I'm 4 blocks away, so I was walking back and decided to go into Future Shop really quickly to buy a DVD I was thinking of picking up.....I was there a few days ago and thought it would be good to have something to watch since I was sick...totally innocent intentions. (home is 4 blocks away from work, Future Shop is on the way)

So...I'm looking through the DVDs for a minute and then I turn a corner and MY BOSS is standing there looking at DVDs.

I'm thinking....oh shit...this will not look good, no matter what, even though I really am sick and on my way home...there's no way to make it look good....so I turned around and walked the other way.

(he's done at 2PM, that's why he was there)

So....I walk around for a few minutes, waiting for him to leave and hoping to hell that he didn't see me and wondering what the hell to do.

so he leaves about 5 min later after I have been walking around.

Then...I decide to leave and just get the hell out of there before anything worse can happen (famous last words).

On my way out...I stop at the front DVD rack one more time, because I was thinking of buying Total Recall...that's why I was there. So I picked up the box one more time, looked at it, and then said...fuck it, I can't afford to spend money, and put it back and turned to leave.....

and then....it happened.

I turn around and one of the Future Shop guys is staring me down and he's like...."You are being watched"

I'm like..."Excuse me? I'm being watched?"

He's like..."Yes, you are being watched. Drop whatever you have and leave."

I'm like..."Um...want to search me? I have nothing. I was thinking of buying this DVD (that he saw me pick up and put back without stepping away from the rack) but I changed my mind."

He says, "Don't make a crime out of it"

(little does this guy know but I've spent like $2K in that store, including my FIRST computer that I bought from him like 7 years ago....how ironic)

At this point, I felt even more sick and just walked out very slowly, so they could see how non-suspicious I was.

The guy totally didn't believe me at all.

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Total Recall DVD... $13.99
Jasper's lost wages because of a stupid union agreement where he would've made more money by staying home all day and calling in sick....$50
Jasper almost getting caught by his boss for doing nothing and getting kicked out of Future Shop...priceless.

There are some things that money can buy. For everything else, there's Jasper.