Ok, just a quick warning. This post is going to make me look like a huge book snob. Which I am, at least most of the time. It’s not that I don’t believe everyone should have access to books, it’s just that there are some people who have absolutely no business being in a bookstore. Period. Take, for example, my customer from Tuesday night.
Bleached-blond Vacant Woman: “Do you have that book Secrets?”
Me (knowing she meant The Secret): “Sure. It’s right over here.”
B-B.V.W (after I handed her the book): “Oh good! It’s little. I’ll actually be able to read this one!”
Me: *blank stare*
After B-B.V.W left with her equally vacant teenage daughter, a coworker and I were joking about her. He asked if I’d shown her the DVD of The Secret. I said I’d been so stunned by “I’ll actually be able to read this one!” that it hadn’t even crossed my mind.
Fast foward two hours.
I’m cashiering. B-B.V.W. comes back. She now wants to return the book because she found out we sell the DVD of The Secret.
B-B.V.W.: “I gonna get the DVD because I can watch it tonight and be done with it!”
Me: *another blank stare*
Like I said, some people just don’t belong in bookstores.
The thing that scares me is that she reproduced. That type of person should have gotten the hell out of the gene pool or been forcibly removed.