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My Czech Republic Blog writes about “a convenient dry cleaner” who's no longer there - and here's one possible reason why: “…the woman smoked like a chimney. So you brought a brand new, washed shirt in to have the sleeves shortened. You handed it over, got your slip and watched the shirt being hung on the to-be-worked-on rack. Five days and some hundred cigarettes later you’d get your shirt back with the sleeves just the right length, but smelling of cigarette smoke so bad that you might just as well have been sitting in a smoky pub for six hours straight.”

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova

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Recent Links also in Eastern & Central Europe

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