Knee, Meet Jerk

A great throwaway line from James Lileks:

I drove to Uptown to take some pictures of the antique store. It’s closing soon; they’re having a 20 percent off sale on everything, and there’s one booth that specializes in the sort of delicious scannables I cannot resist, so I bought some old magazines and catalogs. Also a campaign button from a Rumsfeld Congressional campaign.

When I placed it on the counter, the clerk actually recoiled.