Anodyne
Sunday, July 24, 2005
 
"Can I turn my trade slip into cash? I keep coming in here, but you never have any new books."

Reality check: 6000 new books in since last weekend (count 'em!). Complaint delivered to a clerk whose neck and upper torso was completely obscured behind new paperbacks stacked twenty high on the counter.

Other delightful requests:

National Geographic magazines

Babysitters' Club and Goosebumps (wretched kids' series)

• "Where's your 8-track section?"

• Irving Stone (early 60s potboiling bestseller, a staple of every thrift store in North America)

Full moon city in here this afternoon!


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