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1003.5
17:41:06

Okay seriously guys

Dear J. Crew:

I know that you’re sorry about pissing me off because you made your sizes too small for a few seasons. I appreciate that you’ve been trying to make it up to me since Christmas by listing more clothes than just dress shirts in XL-Tall and XXL. You’re even selling the only pair of jeans I would ever consider wearing for reasons of fashion rather than just doing farm work – 501s – and I’m willing to overlook the fact that you made up some silly reason to charge a buck forty for them. I mean, it’s okay, the ones I already have will last another 10 years so I’ll just buy another pair for 40 bones at J.C. Penney if they still exist in 2019. It was a good effort by you guys, and I appreciate it.

But this here offering, J. Crew. That’s just flat out groveling for me to buy stuff from you again. They’re not even some sort of silly special edition like you did with the converse shoes. You have listed $55 black adidas sambas. You know, the ones I can get from the Kern Bros for the exact same price, and have repeatedly since they still sold them in green back in the early nineties. I mean, look, okay, I’ll buy some new shirts once I get another paycheck, you don’t have to pander that hard.

Love and kisses,
Our Bennyfactor

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