skating cheaply...

so today i wandered into borders to pick up a book to read. i never thought i'd get into anne rice but i'm moving along to the 4th book in the vampire chronicles - the tale of the body theif. anyway, as it goes, much to my dissapointment, borders had every single one of the books except the one i wanted, and dymocks down the road didnt have it either.

but what does this have to do with anything? well nothing i suppose, except for the strange people i encountered at borders. i had to step over and around people every corner i took, nealy standing on some kid in the graphic novels section of the store.. and the magazine section.. well, needless to say it was worse. i was beginning to wonder how this store made its money, with nearly every second person sitting on the floor reading books. the other thing i started to wonder about was if these people bookmark the books they read, or turn the corner of the page as i so often do.. i mean the last thing i'd want to do after paying $30 for a book is to get it home and find some cheap skates bookmark in the book, or find all these dog eared pages from where people have gotten up to on their latest lunchbreak.

the magazine and graphic novels sections were the worst though, as far as the quality of the books that is, they were all bent up and folded and falling apart.. i couldnt believe it. so anyway, off to amazon to get a book i suppose. stupid books stores never seeming to have what i want.

so the rather large neighbours with booming voices are out on their front porch smoking. i wonder if they realise that they talk stupidly loud, and seem to whisper louder. eugh.