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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
Telling tall tales is an artform the owner of the lingerie store next door has down very well. After over 10 months since the fire she finally reopened her store on Tuesday, she managed to get an interview in the newspaper and a lot of the things she said are just not true.
First of all that she lost "thousands of bras". Even taking into account that she means pieces (so also knickers, bathing suits, bikinis, etc) she hasn't even got the space for thousands. I don't think she has hundreds of her very exclusive and very expensive pieces of underwear and swimwear.
Second, she says that on tv she saw "the flames shooting out of the roof". I don't know what footage she saw, but that clearly wasn't the right fire! Yes, flames were shooting out of a coal shute but that was street level. She also tells that the fire "severely damaged the building from basement to attic". The fire severely damaged the basement and her store. The two apartments upstairs only had minor smoke/soot damage. The landlord could have just done a minimal restoration upstairs but decided on a full on renovation instead.
One small mistake I can chalk up to a reporter getting it wrong but these are all such overstatements that I don't believe that.
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It sounds like she's getting as much free advertising as she can. Maybe she should rename the store to "Smokin' Hot Lingerie"