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Is this a bad sign?

I went over to Amazon to look up a book I need to buy for work so that I can give the item number to our purchaser.

When the home page pops up, it has all of these recommendations “For You,” illustrating spyware at its best.

One of the “Personalized Recommendations for You,” (as opposed to the “Recommendations for You” and the “Recommendations Personally for You”) was a “Body Shaver + depilatory gift pack.”

Two things.

1) Who the hell gives a body shaver and/or depilatory as a gift, let alone be inclined to purchase them together as a ‘gift pack’?
2) What, exactly, is Amazon trying to say about me? Yes, I’m Greek, in all that that entails, folicly speaking, but I’ve never been one to start shaving weird parts of my body for ‘more definition’ (frankly, I’m afraid of what I’d find out about my body if it were more defined).

Actually, there’s a third thing:

3) the most personal thing I’ve ever purchased from Amazon was a set of wiper blades for my car when they were on super-duper Friday sale. How in the world did they decide that what I’m missing in my life is the body shaver + depilatory gift pack?? :???:

The good news is, that’s 5 whole minutes I didn’t spend thinking about the office drama. Just 7 hours and 55 minutes more to fill …

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