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It's a rainy evening. Fernando sits in his chair and looks out at the sheets of precipitation, thinking happy thoughts full of petrichor. A white pickup truck pulls up and a lady enters the store.

She doesn't pass by the counter, but this does not cause Fernando undue concern. The sales rack is, after all, right there. Perhaps she is browsing and this will lead to Fernando receiving income from her purchase. Thoughts like this also cause Fernando to feel happiness.

But, no, about a minute later she departs, clambers into her truck, and speeds off.

“What was that all about?” Fernando asks the empty store. He comes out from around the counter and spies the reason upon the wall.

It is a gaudy poster for some bandstand thing that is being sponsored by Miller Lite. It was not there before this lady entered the store. What's more egregious is that Fernando's own pushpins were used to secure it to the wall.

“Well, okay,” says Fernando, moving to the wall to do what needs to be done. Another customer pulls up and enters the Dominion.

“What's that all about?” he asks Fernando, pointing.

“This?” Fernando says, holding up the advertisement poster in his hand. “This is what happens when you put things on my wall without asking first.” And Fernando strides to his paper recycling box and jams the poster in amidst its garbage brethren.