True: It’s exhausting and exasperating to have to keep chatting with fake-friendly employees when you’re trying to get your shopping done as quickly as possible. Every terrible retail operation I have worked for has adopted a policy like this: aggressive/attentive obnoxiousness.

I spend so much less on corsets, buggy whips, India ink, sealing wax and haberdashery bills than my great-grandfather did, so I guess prices have really come down in the last 100 years! 🙄

Thank you for this information. I just deleted it.

Patty Duke once told me before DOLLS premiered, the cast thought it would get lots of Oscar attention. After listening to the audience howl and jeer at the premiere, however, they realized that might not be the case. The after-party, she said, was unforgettably humiliating.

I was glad they did not take my invitation. I really wanted it as a souvenir. BTW, my editor (who was in his 70s) had absolutely no idea who Harrison Ford or Steven Spielberg were. He gave me the invitation just to get me out of the office because he couldn’t stand me: The benefits of being a pest!

I just bought gas for $2.91 a gallon at Sam’s Club. It was $3.29 everywhere else. 🙄