Shoppers Drug Mart, Parliament and Carlton, 7:40pm<\/em><\/p>\n

Sharkboy: (Depositing our purchase down on the checkout counter)<\/em> “Hello there!”
\nClerk: (Dead eyed, zombie-like<\/em>) “Good evening.”
\nSharkboy: “All ready for Halloween?”
\nClerk: “…g…”
\nLongish pause. No more response.<\/em>
\nSharkboy: “I’ll take that grunt as a ‘Yes’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shoppers Drug Mart, Parliament and Carlton, 7:40pm Sharkboy: (Depositing our purchase down on the checkout counter) “Hello there!” Clerk: (Dead eyed, zombie-like) “Good evening.” Sharkboy: “All ready for Halloween?” Clerk: “…g…” Longish pause. No more response. Sharkboy: “I’ll take that grunt as a ‘Yes’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[1256,1257,1258,1260,1259,1255,1106],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WjY-Hk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}