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There were shops here of types that I hadn't seen in years- fix-it shops ans little electrical shops, bakeries, cobblers, tea rooms- and sometimes they sold the most extraordinary combinations of goods. At the far end of the main street, I came across one place so exceptionnal in this respect that it stopped me in my tracks.
It was a shop that sold pet supplies and pornography. I am quite genuine. I stood back to stare at the sign, then peered through the window and finally stepped inside. It was a smallish shop and I was the only customer. On a raised platform about halfway bat sat a man beside a cash register, reading a newspaper. He didn't say hello or make any acknowledgement, which seemed odd - very un-Australian - until I realized he was being discreet. I imagine most of his customers do what I was doing now: wander around showing an unwonted interest in catnip and flea powders, pausing from time to time to study the labels on canisters of fish flakes and the like, before ending up, entirely by accident, at the back of the shop, in the heavy breathing section. Remarkably, this is what happened to me now.
It was a shop that sold pet supplies and pornography. I am quite genuine. I stood back to stare at the sign, then peered through the window and finally stepped inside. It was a smallish shop and I was the only customer. On a raised platform about halfway bat sat a man beside a cash register, reading a newspaper. He didn't say hello or make any acknowledgement, which seemed odd - very un-Australian - until I realized he was being discreet. I imagine most of his customers do what I was doing now: wander around showing an unwonted interest in catnip and flea powders, pausing from time to time to study the labels on canisters of fish flakes and the like, before ending up, entirely by accident, at the back of the shop, in the heavy breathing section. Remarkably, this is what happened to me now.