Life in 3D

Random bookstore stuff

Had a guy come in and grab about 25 books from our business and marketing section.  He then carries this load over to the cafe, plops down in a chair and proceeds to stack them around him in a semi circle like he’s making a little fortress of solitude.

Finally our GM goes over and asks him if he is planning on purchasing any of them.

“No, I’m just doing some research for a paper I have in my marketing class.”

“Well” says my GM, “We are actually trying to sell these books and that’s pretty hard to do when you have taken them all.  I’d appreciate it if you would put them back if you aren’t going to buy them.”

And what does douche-bag marketing student say?

“That’s not very good customer service, man.  I may not shop here again.”

You ain’t shopping here NOW, jackass.

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Overheard a customer trying to remember a book title with his girlfriend so I stepped in.

“Are you thinking of ‘Germs, Guns and Steel?”

“Yeah, that’s the title.”

“It’s upstairs in the Biology section.” I point out where it is since I am at the register and can’t take them up there myself.

Five minutes later he’s back with his book and a smart ass look on his face. “It wasn’t in Biology.  It was in the SCIENCE section.”

I gave him a flat look. “Right.  BIOLOGY is a SCIENCE.”

I think I confused him.

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To all you wanna be interior decorators, wedding planners, personal trainers, chefs, fashion designers, web designer, MCST’s, and prospective grad students.  BUY THE DAMN BOOK OR PUT IT BACK!

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I have not, nor will I, read the Twilight ‘Saga’, The Sookie Stackhouse books, anything by Nora Roberts, or the Vampire Diaries.  I have entirely the wrong set of chromosomes for that.

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“There’s a book you guys had here last week and I can’t find it now.”

Now the sad part here is I saw this guy last week with the book he is wanting.  He had a cup of coffee too.  Just a few minutes after he left the store I found the same book in the corner with coffee spilled all over it.

“Yes sir, we did but someone spilled coffee on it so we had to throw it away.”

“Well when will you get a new one?”  Not even an ‘oh, really’.  I knew he did it and he knew I knew.

“We probably wont for a while. I could order it for you.”

“Dang.  I really wanted to read it.”

“Well, sir” I said, “I could special order it and we would have it here in a few days.”

“I don’t want to buy it, I just want to read it.”

And people wonder why I hate our customers sometimes.

Fun Times

The other day the wife and I were in ‘downtown’ Alameda and as we were walking towards the intersection where Starbucks is located we saw two people standing there with clipboards, looking around like they were searching for a mark to shake down,  and they were both wearing the same blue shirt with a logo I couldn’t make out at that distance.

As we got closer one of them turned, saw us and began waving like we were old friends or something even though I had never seen him before in my life.  But, at the distance we were now at I could see what his shirt said.

ACLU

Now, in all honesty I planned on just walking on by and ignoring the little liberal douche, but he stepped into the middle of the sidewalk and blocked our way, the whole time smiling a stupid smile like he just humped the neighbor’s cat or something.  I guess he thought that by stepping in my way would make me stop, or slow down, but instead I kept the same pace and maintained a collision course.  I figured that since he was about 4” taller than me and I was 4” wider across the shoulders that the advantage was in my favor as to who would survive the impact.

At four paces away he opened his hole and began spewing out his opening line. “Hey, do you have a moment to talk a-…”

“Get out of my way, now.”

I said this is a perfectly reasonable tone of voice, the wife says that it came out more like a growl that said “I will kill you now.”

Liberal douchebag stammered, took one step back as I kept moving and then moved out of our way and up against the street light.

We got to our car, cranked up the stereo to ‘The Warrior Song’ and drove past the same corner a few minutes later as we went home.  Liberal boy was still against the light post and only calling to people as they walk past him.

So again, I have done my part to keep sidewalks safe for people to travel.  No need for thanks, it was my pleasure.

OMFG!!!

Jim Trafficant is out of jail and planning his revenge… by running for Congress???

Former U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. of Ohio, who was released from prison four months ago after serving a sentence for racketeering, tax evasion and bribery, is planning another run for Congress in 2010.

The guy was a scumbag when he was in office and is proving to be a scumbag out of office if the article is correct.

He also said his conviction was politically motivated and that he is “a very bitter guy” who is seeking revenge against the “suckers” who helped put him in prison.

Maybe we need a new Constitutional amendment that says if you were convicted of a felony you cannot vote or run for office.  Right now many states will allow a convicted felon to vote upon completion of his sentence, but I can’t say I agree with that.  You broke the rules of society and once you’ve done that you should lose some of those privileges permanently.  Like the right to vote, carry a conceiled weapon or even own a gun.

You broke the rules, you pay the price.  Trafficant thought the rules didn’t apply to him.  For those of you who don’t know about Jimmy “The Rug” Trafficant here is the Wiki entry on him.  Suffice it to say that this is the kind of man I wouldn’t buy a used car from, much less vote into a public office.

While he has always tried to wrap himself in the flag and claimed that everyone who opposed him is out to get him, and the charges are all part of a huge vendetta against him, the truth is that he’s just another Huey Long, just not as bright or as successful.  The worst part of it all though is that when he ran for Congress WHILE IN JAIL 15% still voted for this jackass.

Makes me fucking sick.

More bowing

This time to the mayor of Tampa

Weasel Zippers asks why he would do something this stupid and I think I have the answer – besides the obvious one that he is a moron.

I am going to bet that his thoughts on it are “Gee, she’s Asian so the respectful thing to do is bow” which to me says that for all the talk of moving beyond race and judging people by the quality of their character, Obama’s vision is literally skin deep.

Welcome to the world of the left.