OK, most of my days I am an easygoing and forgiving person. But sometimes my fellow humans just make my eyes roll.
It’s book week here in Australia, and in the bookshop I will get an influx of a certain type of customer: a parent who needs to have a book as a prop to demonstrate where and what their child is costumed as. Many are great folk who have a smattering of knowledge of children’s literature, or at least know what their kids read. (Presumably the parents who are constant readers already have a small library of children’s classics at home, or at the very least know where the town’s public library is.)
But yesterday took the biscuit.
Customer : Do you have any books on pirate zombies?
Me : Err, for what age.
Customer : {looking at picture books) Seven year old boy.
Me : Well, we certainly have some books on pirates.
Customer : What about the Pirates of the Caribbean?
Me : We might have had some when the movies came out, but not any more. What about Treasure Island?
Customer : What’s that?
Me : (under my breath) @&#(&Q#(%&()#&%(#&@!!!!!!!!
Now I don’ t expect the average person on the street to have heard of Homer or le Morte d’Arthur, but seriously!!! WTF!!!!! Treasure Island!!! Long John Silver!!! Peglegs and parrots!!!!
Am I being unreasonable here?? Even the Muppets did Treasure Island!
OK rant over. Back to my stable persona. Thanks for listening.
Is it part of the Marvel franchise? *runs off quickly, giggling*
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Never under estimate the power of human stupidity
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btw when did you get a stable persona?
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I saved up and bought it on ebay. Worth every penny, had hardly ever used.
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😂😂😂
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I have a story on Mopy Dick that you’ll like- but am not sure how to add the link. I’ll figure it out but meanwhile – that story is on the blog and is called ‘Mopy’ and I always change the customer’s names as they are true stories! 😊
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[…] In an earlier rant post, I had bemoaned the existence of a customer in my bookshop who had apparently never heard of Treasure Island. https://chronolit.com/2018/08/21/rant/ […]
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