Comments on: A Marked Man

By: Jerry Haines

Jerry Haines — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:41:21 +0000

That’s a terrific story. Glad to see I’m not the only maladroit writer in Virginia.

By: Dottie

Dottie — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:15:27 +0000

More than once I have gone through the department stores security with one of those “thingy’s” still attached to an item of clothing. I have taken the item back to the store & of course when I entered the alarm went off. However, after showing my receipt, I was allowed to go to the specific department in the store to have it removed. It was a royal pain to have to go back & now I request the salesperson to be sure the security thingy has been removed.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:56:22 +0000

When I got to the part about the ink exploding, I actually said “Holy Crap!” loud enough to worry our little beagle in the room next door, who is now consoling me for what she knows is a mysterious pang — a deep, secret ache, at the very least, that my human male machoism is simply too proud to let her see. “You don’t have to say anything,” she says, with the pity that only a small dog’s eyes can muster. “I know. I know you hurt. Down deep. So then. Let me step all over your laptop until you feel whole again. Were you typing something? Listen. It will take time. Meanwhile, here are some full-on kisses, to let you know you are alive. You protest! But why? … ” And so on. Any rate, Dad, I hold you accountable.

On your end: Did the “indelible” ink clean up? God, I pray those quotation marks do their trick.

By: June

June — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:26:42 +0000

It must have been a sight! I never knew about the ink…

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:35:02 +0000

Haha … I had that happen to me and I googled on how to remove those things and all it takes is a sharp file or hacksaw. Something a determined shopper could do in a dressing room so it’s more of a keep honest people honest device if you ask me.

We removed ours without incident and I went out dressed for the evening.

By: Pica

Pica — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:57:53 +0000

hee hee.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:34:55 +0000

This is hilarious! I guess you can’t take the folks outta the country…

I saw over at Colleen’s that one of your pictures is in the new Floyd Hotel, and since I couldn’t see it very well in her post, I tried to find it in your pictures, with no luck. Can you direct me to it? I believe she called it January Tree.

Hopefully the cops won’t see your hands whilst you are out in public today!