Overheard in Dunkin Donuts<\/a> category of VM (I’ve retroactively added those other recent DD posts)!<\/p>\nI walked into the place around 6:45am. A workman (flannel shirt, jeans, boots) was in front of me on line. He finished his order and then asked the cashier, “My boss come in here already?”<\/p>\n
“I don’t know. What’s he look like?”<\/p>\n
“Short guy. Looks like a bridge troll.”<\/p>\n
“Oh, yes! He was in about half an hour ago.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the way to the airport yesterday morning, we stopped at a Dunkin Donuts in Boonton. It’s the third or fourth time I’ve gone there on the way to Newark, but I’m going to have to quit that practice. As it turns out, their coffee is so impossibly hot that I only get to drink … <\/p>\n
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