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Are you positive? |
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9 to 5 |
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Rhythm |
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Distractions |
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Pool sharks |
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Quiz:
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As good as Gold |
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True lies |
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6° to Kevin Bacon |
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Test: your limits |
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If walls could talk |
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Pretty in ink |
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Home videos |
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Park 'n hide |
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When the night shift takes over, the rules change—especially when you’re the only one who’s not wasted.
In a town where you’ve got 40,000 students running around, a night shift can be an unforgettable experience.
Just click each hour between 9 to 5 to find out about a few of thoses memorable moments:
GAS: $13, NIGHT OUT: $27, TAKING A LEAK: PRICELESSPaul Atria, a clerk at the Kangaroo Gas Station across from UF, had a line of customers waiting to purchase items and pay for gas. Everything was going as usual until a man in his late 20s couldn’t hold it any longer and used the convenient store’s floor as a urinal. Now everyone knew he didn’t wash his hands after doing his business.
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MEN’S-ROOM WOMEN“One o’clock in the morning is not our busiest hour,” says Tina L. Majors, 31, Archer Road Albertson’s six-year assistant manager. When 10 men in women’s clothes walked in, one man had seen enough. The fraternity pledges had curlers in their hair, facial masks, slippers and housecoats, while sorority sisters watched. Each pledge had to buy an item and obtain three customer signatures attesting they saw the pledge. An “elderly gentleman” saw two of the cross-dressers enter the men’s bathroom and insisted it should be banned.
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1-800…SEX?Craig Beatty, a video clerk at Hollywood Video, is used to getting strange calls when working the late shift. The UF English major claims that there is one guy who frequently calls the store to simply ask, “Are you having sex?” In case you’re curious, Beatty isn’t talking.
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SUB’S HEADLIGHTWhoever thought making sandwiches could be dangerous? Dan Crane, 21, was on the job when a man in his 20s got into an altercation with one of Crane’s fellow employees. The man left and came back later to shatter the window with a flashlight. Apparently he was still hungry, so he ordered a sub.
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SPANKING DEVILDerek Wohlust, a sales associate at Smoke, was minding his own business when he saw a husband and wife who looked like part of a sadomasochistic club on a mission of pain. Wohlust witnessed the husband tying his wife up to one of the pillars at Smoke to deliver the punishment. The husband whipped it out and smacked her rear end with it—the paddle, of course. The leather-clad hubby was really generous though, and let customers and Wohlust share in all the paddling fun.
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ONE little WORDLowell Garrett, a 30-year-old Gainesville pharmacist, unsuccessfully played 5-minute charades against a foreign exchange student with a case of Montezuma’s Revenge, but was unable to determine his ailment. As their mutual frustration reached a crescendo, the student clearly blurted out the single English word that identified the problem: “shit.”
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SHE’S GOT BEEFEven though Ivy enjoyed her regular customers at Sonny’s Real Pit BBQ, she admits that at times the patrons became too friendly. The worst was a guy who approached her for a lap dance. Aside from rejecting the man, she made sure a plate of ribs ‘accidentally’ fell on his lap. Erotic dancing was not on the menu.
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LET ME SEE THAT...Psychology senior Joe Palmer used to manage the night shift at the Blimpie on campus. His most memorable customer was a young freshman girl who tripped over a ‘wet floor’ sign, landing flat on her back. Unfortunately, she chose to wear a skirt that night, and everyone in the store caught a glimpse of her thong, th-thong, thong, thong.
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LOVER BOYSuresh Vattamattam, a driver for Papa John’s, took a large pepperoni west of town to an address smack in the middle of a trailer park. As he walked to the door, he heard two ladies screaming from the trailer. Next thing he knew, two women in their late 40s flew out the door in nothing but underwear and a request: “Why don’t you strip for me?” Vattamattam, a good sport, lifted the bottom of his polo to his chest, but stopped and gave them the pizza. Don’t think he left empty handed for his efforts—an extra $10 was his tip for the tease.
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by Celeste Ayala, Morgana Cabrera-Bray,
Joy Carlson-Waters & Fred Griffin
