Article: Diet Pied Piper turns out to be rat

Bubbling with enthusiasm over making another attempt at weight loss, I bought a bunch of Herbalife products from a local distributor. My zeal lasted exactly two weeks, when the stuff began making me ill.

I contacted the salesman with the hope of obtaining a refund under the manufacturer's 30-day guarantee. But the man kept trying to worm out of it, insinuating I did not follow directions.

Our conversation ended with him spewing out invectives. In fact, he called me a fat- - -. While I don't deny being overly voluptuous, I do believe my derriere is quite proportionate to the rest of me - which on the whole is a big, beautiful, attractive, usually self-confident, always well-groomed ...

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