To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 22:39:30 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] No shucking, please
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Today in a grocery store I saw a large bin of corn where there were two
signs posted saying "No shucking, please".  The floor surrounding the bin
was littered with shuckings, and the bin itself contained more shuckings
than unshucked corn.  While I was pondering this tableau, a woman walked
up to the bin, picked up an ear of corn, and began shucking it.  I wonder
why are people are seemingly so eager to shuck corn as to openly flout
the posted policy, and possibly risk a confrontation with store
personnel?  Given that people are unwilling to refrain from shucking the
corn, I wonder why the store maintains such a policy, anyway.

Ron Kean

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