Anodyne
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
 
Waste My Time Redux

It's all true, folks!

Thanks to Sylvia, who originally spotted this priceless bit of social anthropology in the Langara College student paper, and to Pete, who found the online version. Permanently installed above the Pulpfiction till.

The cartoonist works (or worked) at the Book Warehouse down the road. I have had every single one of these customers, some repeatedly, sometimes two or three at a time. Reflecting on creative solutions to the problem, an Onion headline springs to mind: Convenience Store Clerk Kills Six in His Imagination...

Vague On Plot & Genre Dude ("It's a famous story...") is the worst offender, with Photocopying Guy jockeying for second place. Not depicted: Antiquarian Book Snob, Aggressive Dutch Architect Glasses-Wearing Housewife, Book Destroyer, New Age Man, Incomprehensible Mumbling Lady, Mr. Daypass, Ms. Remainder Table, Power Couple, Walkman Guy, Fragile Lily, Crackhead #1, Crackhead #2, Sophisticated Book Thief, Quebecois Street Urchin, Mister Aggro, Aggro Jr., actual staff & customers!

- posted by cjb @ 12:04 AM


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