For nearly twenty years I had been 1 patronizing a small video store on a country road near my home.

Don将近二十年来，我一直光顾我家附近的一间小音像品店，这间小店就在一条乡村公路边上。

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Inefficiency and incompetence are not punished by "consumers" of their products or services spurning the UN and patronizing a competitor.

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But I think there's something else at work here: For your typical self-conscious but wealthy New Yorker with egalitarian ideals, it's hard to imagine anything more uncomfortable than patronizing a store meant just for rich people.

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Heather Roberts of Sugar Land, Texas, made a point of patronizing at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday while visiting Atlanta for a conference.

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