opening day

today i thought to myself that i should have written something about the guy who's car caught fire during rush hour of the opening day of the tip shop in 2026. that was two days ago now and i fear the chaos of the swarm of customers descending like locusts at exactly 10 am is lost. that amidst it all, even while The Man Who Is Banned showed up and started instigating again the very thing he was banned for (fighting), that the gentleman who's car was almost but not quite yet on fire came up to me in the middle of making up prices for yet another customer's cluster of randomly assorted objects and said "do you have a fire extinguisher? it's kind of an emergency." and when i responded with appropriate alarm he said not to worry and wandered off. within 5 minutes his car was on fire. 

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