Thursday, 26 March 2009

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  An Embarrassing Moment at Barnes & Noble

  Like most cool kids, I was hanging out at Barnes & Noble last weekend because I find it fun to look, talk, and criticize about the endless rummage of titles that I will likely never read.  It is like a kid in a candy store, even if he does not have the cash money to buy anything, the mere presence of all those delicious treats is enough to feed his imagination and evoke a much needed sense of wonder.  In short, I suppose I just find it to be a relaxing and fun way to pass time with friends.
  
  So I purchased an iced coffee refreshment from the Buck's and was sucking down that icy drink of God-given glory, feeling rather carefree about the moment, when I strolled across a huge book that was positioned in such a manner whereby it's front half was flimsily drooping over the edge.  I felt empathy for the inanimate object because that cannot be good on the old spine.  Overcome with bibliophilia, I try to right the wrong.
  
  This book is a beastly and exhaustive creature.  It is one of those Strong's Exhaustive Bible Concordances that is like a trillion pages thick and could smash an infant if it were to fall off the shelf.  Indeed, I wanted to protect the children so I repositioned that bad boy and forced it back into a proper position of safety.  The repositioning of the book seemed to had gone quite well, and it appeared that I had saved the day and perhaps an infant or two.
  
  But no... it suddenly begins to expand, which evokes my fight or flight response as I realize that the beast is going to fall.  Having played baseball for most of my life, I have been conditioned to respond quickly to falling things and prevent them from hitting the ground or else you risk losing the game.  And that is exactly what I did.  With one arm, I caught the book, and sadly, I still lost the game because that same arm was embracing my iced coffee drink.
  
  As I caught the book with my arm, it managed in a very Newtonian fashion to smash my coffee cup and thus rocket cold coffee brew into a row of books behind me.  At this point, I am rather shocked.  Because I just devoted way too much time to the repositioning of a book and actually prevented the big book from smashing on the ground, but yet, I see that I have just destroyed and wiped out a whole bottom row of books on the shelf behind me.  I saved one at the expense of many.  Why God? 
  
  Not only is this embarrassing, but I realize that the damages are going to be at least a hundred and something  dollars, if not much more.  So I was tempted to walk away, but I did not.  I pleaded my case before the startled employee, and the truth set me free, although I don't think my friend will ever let me live this one down.
  
  So thank you Barnes & Noble.  I owe you.
  
  I do not recall exactly what books I managed to destroy, but I hope to find out when I return to the store in the future.  If my memory is correct, I think that that shelf had a lot of junk on it, so perhaps it was divine providence.  Just perhaps...lol.
  
  

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