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Maraya1969

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26. I know that there will always be people who feel the need to chop down

Reply to Jedi Guy (Reply #24)

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 10:14 AM

6 hrs ago

any idea someone else has. It serves no purpose except for their own need, whatever that may be . And I said I would not put pepper spray in the package so why try and criticise for it unless for that own personal need?

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I did something a little crazy the other day at the 7-Eleven [View all] Maraya1969 23 hrs ago OP

Vive le resistance! Easterncedar 23 hrs ago #1

Hahaha Diamond_Dog 23 hrs ago #2

A store in our town used to have Christmas stockings with single letter initials on them Attilatheblond 22 hrs ago #4

i still take tablloids and turn the title page inward . AllaN01Bear 22 hrs ago #7

Nay, perfume! usonian 22 hrs ago #3

Good thing you did not take the TDS vaccination. PufPuf23 22 hrs ago #5

"" AllaN01Bear 22 hrs ago #6

You mean the kind of masks I used to wear in the winter to keep frostbite away from my nose and ears? Ms. Toad 22 hrs ago #8

I live in S FL Maraya1969 18 hrs ago #16

This message was self-deleted by its author Greg_In_SF 18 hrs ago #19

y tho WhiskeyGrinder 21 hrs ago #9

I turn over books GentryDixon 21 hrs ago #10

So, what you're saying is Greg_In_SF 21 hrs ago #11

I LIVE IN S FL Maraya1969 18 hrs ago #17

And I live Greg_In_SF 4 hrs ago #31

Gun show flyers Golfnbrew 20 hrs ago #12

Sounds passive-aggressive to me. Intractable 20 hrs ago #13

So? If I was aggressive I would get arrested Maraya1969 18 hrs ago #18

And some of us do pointless things that actually inconvenience innocent others. Intractable 16 hrs ago #20

Weird that your post is turning into a smear job against you, WTH? Clouds Passing 5 hrs ago #29

My confession tavernier 20 hrs ago #14

Yikes, that is quite a bizarre thing to do. tritsofme 19 hrs ago #15

Back when I was going to bookstores, or anywhere really with books, ... mucholderthandirt 8 hrs ago #21

You were just making retail workers clean up your mess Sympthsical 6 hrs ago #25

Well, you said yourself it was "a little crazy". Jedi Guy 7 hrs ago #22

There are many more on this thread that think it was great and shared their Maraya1969 6 hrs ago #23

You will, I hope, forgive me if I don't frame hiding books and masks as "acts of protest" in my own mind. Jedi Guy 6 hrs ago #24

I know that there will always be people who feel the need to chop down Maraya1969 6 hrs ago #26

I'm not criticizing an idea here, I'm criticizing an impulse. The two are different. Jedi Guy 5 hrs ago #30

The masks that ICE agents wear... BH liberal 6 hrs ago #27

"I'd like to put a little slit and spray pepper spray in there, but I'm sure I would get caught and go to jail." Polybius 6 hrs ago #28

There are people PCB66 4 hrs ago #32