-- excerpt from "Hurry Up and Wait" TIMOTHY EGAN For a native Westerner, the slights from the other end of the country start early and build through a lifetime: national broadcasters on election night who cannot pronounce Oregon (it's like gun) or Nevada (it's not Nev-odda), or a toll-free clerk who thinks that New Mexico is part of old Mexico.
But when she called the drugstore to verify that it was indeed free, a clerk told her that all their ATMs charge service fees, she said.
Oy. "Well, we do have another book about dogs we can offer you for free," said the clerk.
If I was free right now, the clerk said, I could have the last oxygenated herbal bath of the day.
CCs are determined by a nurse and recorded in free text by a clerk.
Just wave on the people behind you in line as each station opens (tell them, "I'm waiting for Dave," for example) until your favorite clerk is free.
While money for judges, clerks and free legal services is short, the Department of Homeland Security has been very well financed, she noted.
Though his duties were almost risk-free (he was a clerk on board the U.S.S. Minnesota, chasing unarmed blockade runners), he jumped ship anyway.
So they search in Miami, in sunny stores where old Cuban music plays nonstop, sales clerks distribute free coffee and television videos show images of Cuba.
Mr Alckmin also promises to recruit thousands of clerks to free policemen from paperwork.But all this may be too little, too late, to secure his return as governor in October's vote.
For a corporate deadbeat, the retailer Daiei was positively hopping downstairs on a recent evening with customers lured in by peppy tunes blaring from loudspeakers and clerks offering free sushi morsels.
