As I bolted out of Abercrombie to catch up with Bones, I forgot to take off the sixty dollar t-shirt I was trying on. As soon as I hit the exit, the alarms went ballistic. Bones saw me coming out, and I threw my arms up to show him I was dead in the water. That was when the Abercrombie security guys came flying out of the store to stop me.

     I turned around to tell them I wasn't stealing anything, but they didn't believe me. "Sure, kid, whatever you say. Let's go inside."

They escorted me back into the store, where this big gorilla of a guy met us and took me into a back room with lots of security cameras, a big pile of clothes, and all sorts of other stuff that people had tried to steal. In that room, there was another ape-man sitting in a chair, watching all the security cameras.

He never looked at me. He just kept staring up at the cameras and said, "Sit down, Red. You're gonna be a while."

     I told them I was just running across to the phone store to meet up with my friend for the promotion. The gorilla who escorted me in just laughed and said, "Sure thing, Tomato Boy, you were running out of the store with the t-shirt that's selling like hot cakes and you were going to run back and pay for it after you won the contest next door."

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