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May 9, 2003:

Pinay woman, heavyset, very short, watches TV in the Service Department's waiting room. Some boom-boom movie on cable: one fireball explosion after the next. Delightedly she turns to you, saying, "Good movie!"

Bitterly you frown, and bitterly you reply, "No. All Americans know how to do is blow stuff up."

She's absolutely shocked, and although you're there together over an hour she says not another word.