Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Bookstore Pigs

Being someone who enjoys spending a great deal of time in the bookstore, I’ve come to notice certain PIG PEOPLE, who sit sprawled out on the floor with about 10 books, 5 magazines, and a soft drink and bagged lunch from a fast-food chain.

(what is this…a bookstore PICNIC???)

I so enjoy watching them chomp and slurp, while leaving filthy fingerprints all over the books and magazines - it’s disgusting!

And that’s not the worst part of it.

I especially love when they decide to get up and leave, how like an animal in the wilderness, they just leave their debris on the floor where they ate it.

And what REALLY annoys me, is how they have absolutely no consideration for returning the books and magazines to where they got them - they just leave a pile of literature rubble.

A few days ago, while I was in the bookstore, I was witness to this rude and unconscious behavior. As I stood glancing through a book, I listened to two young men sitting on the floor conversing as they were looking through a stack of magazines.

When they were finished and got up to leave, one of the young men started to collect the magazines while the other one said (with this arrogant attitude), “Oh no, just leave them here…what do you think these employees are getting paid to do?”

All of a sudden my blood started to boil. I felt like the Tasmanian Devil getting ready to spin dance and destroy everything in my path.

I turned around and look into the faces of these ignorant beast creatures and gave them the most filthiest look that I could come up with.

I wanted to grab the one young man by the ear and drag him over to the magazines and say, “Pick them up and bring them BACK to where you got them. And these employees are NOT getting paid to be your MAID. So learn some manners…you ASSHOLE DIP-SHIT PIG!”

However I didn’t… I just settled for the filthiest look.

And that felt pretty damn good.





Photo: vromansbookstore