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This poor clerk. (Original Post)
Hassin Bin Sober
Sep 2013
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Dash87
(3,220 posts)1. lol Nice. It's a prank and I don't know how she kept a straight face the whole time.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)2. That must have been filmed by someone trying to promote the author / staged.
There is no reason that someone would have been filming this encounter from the beginning when there was nothing to see.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,345 posts)4. I think they are promoting a play.
Paul Sheldon is a character in the Stephen King novel and the movie.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)9. "Misery" is a fictional book series in the book "Misery" by Stephen King.
Paul Sheldon is the main character of that book. She's acting as the woman that kept Paul Sheldon captive in her house.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)10. And "Cockadoody" is straight from Bates' lines in the movie
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)3. Something like this has happened somewhere.
rurallib
(62,460 posts)12. most likely
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)5. Oh, they've got misery in that store, alright!
I hate this kind of stuff...maybe even more so if it's a prank.
mockmonkey
(2,834 posts)6. I thought it was funny.
I kept waiting for her to use certain phrases and she did.
The clerk was in on it, I have no doubt, I think it was for the entertainment of the customers.
The clerk was in on it, I have no doubt, I think it was for the entertainment of the customers.
rug
(82,333 posts)7. Her next stop is the hardware store.
nirvana555
(448 posts)8. shes acting like the kathy bates character in misery n/y
rurallib
(62,460 posts)11. some people have Misery; some are carriers
she is definitely a carrier.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)13. That no security guard came over to check out the commotion
is a tad suspicious.