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podcast contains explicit language. Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, October 2nd,

the Lena Dunham's Food Diary Edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a writer for Double X, talking to you from D.C. And I'm joined in New York by June Thomas, editor of Outward Slate's LGBTQ blog. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And then Noreen Malone in editor at New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. So before we get going today, I want to make an announcement,

which is that we are opening back up our separate Facebook page. We had joined with the

general double X Facebook page, and now we're going to open up Double X Gab Fest page, which we

had opened for a while, and it's too boring to explain why we merge them, but we're going to

unmerge them because I feel like

our listeners got lost in the mix. And to get us going on the Facebook page, I want to ask you guys to help me with something. And I don't mean you guys in the studio. I mean, you guys are listeners. So yesterday, I was at a store and I bought myself a purse and a couple of pairs of pants, It's like a bunch of stuff, basically.

It was like my fall hall, okay?

And I bought myself a purse and a couple of pairs of pants, like a bunch of stuff, basically. It was like my fall hall, okay? And I bought this purse, and I got home, and I was taking out the paper in the purse, and I noticed that they had forgotten to take out that security thing, you know, that, like, black thing that indicates that, you know, you're not a thief. But then I checked my email receipt and I realized that, in fact, they hadn't charged me for it. So here's what I want to listeners to do. Tell me what I should do. Am I supposed to take it back and pay for it? You guys can weigh in if you guys have like immediate opinions. I honestly do not know what the right thing to do is here. Am I supposed to just like rejoice and say I got this for free? Like what's the correct thing to do? Was it a very expensive bag? That's exactly what my daughter asked. Was it a very expensive bag? I mean, it was not like, it was not like Gucci or even Mark Jacobs expensive, but it was expensive, like, you know, more than $100 expensive. So, you know, some money was involved. So I just honestly don't know what to do. I mean, it's a pain in my ass to go back to the store. Like, that's not nothing, you know. So I think you take it back and they should give you a deep discount on it. That's my... But what if they don't.

That's what no one.

My daughter was like, if you take it back, they'll be like, you're such a good person. And so we'll give it to you for $5. But like, what sales girl has the right to do that? Well, you take it to the manager. Huh. Because the manager has a lot of discretion. I mean, I think you take it back because probably someone got in trouble for missing inventory.

Or I think you take it back because probably someone got in trouble for missing inventory.

Or I think you need to take it back just because, A, you've got that security thing inside,

and every time you go in a store, it's going to set it off.

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