Visit chain bookstore

>visit chain bookstore
>employee hands me a complimentary latte
>hear that the string quartet is playing my favourite Beethoven piece
>get in roller coaster and ride to the poetry section
>see the poet of the day is William Blake
>Blake impersonator is really entertaining
>audience is enraptured and really into it
>everyone gets free copies of his collected work
>get into roller coaster and ride to exit
>notice there's a literary trivia contest going on
>use my experience on Veeky Forums to win a complete set of William T. Vollmann books
>man walks up to me, says he was really impressed and that he would like to publish some of my work
>ask him who he works for
>"Penguin Classics"

>visit indie bookstore
>smell of weed immediately hits my face
>clerk is a 15 year old kid wearing an Ayn Rand shirt
>ask him where the poetry section is
>groans with disgust and says it's "somewhere in the back"
>try to hop in between piles of old Romance paperbacks
>get distracted by some dogs fucking in the theater section
>trip over a stack of Stephen King novels and get buried under a bunch of Wordsworth Classics
>pinned to the floor
>call for help, but the clerk is distracted by a homeless man trying to steal some erotica
>see a Norton Critical Edition of Shelly's work within reach
>pull out arm and grab it
>feels wet for some reason
>tfw it was soaked in cum

Why do people think indie bookstores are supposed to be so much better?

Comfy story.

which chain bookstore?

Indigo (Canadian store)

hey good seeing you the other day. next time you stop by you can pick up a signed first edition of ulysses, on the house, for being such a super customer over the years.

>not signed first edition of the iliad
i'm going back to borders.

You STILL doesn't have a signed copy of EVERY ancient Greek author? PLEB!

Seriously now, get them while it's possible. I heard prices are going up on those.

Why do people think indie bookstores are supposed to be so much better?

Um the fact that the place reeks of weed is a significant plus also indie store in my experience have always staffed hotter/younger girls.

I appreciate the earthy foibles.

I love that image of Seinfeld, always makes me laugh, also good post OP.

>he doesn't own Diogenes' barrel, still scratched with his entire philosophical treatise and complete deconstruction of aristotle, plato, descartes (he was a time traveler, you'd know this if you had read his barrel, pleb), kant, wittgenstein, and all the rest of the schlocky frauds.
man, what a frightful life you must lead. i'll probably have the barrel burned upon my death, so plebs like you can't read it.

>tfw you will never watch Diogenes masturbate in public
why even live?

GOOD thread

Sensible jej

>plus also indie store in my experience have always staffed hotter/younger girls.

>dyed hair, hot topic tier clothes, and nose and lip piercings
>attractive

no thanks

don't forget no chins and pudginess

>pin that says "pronouns: they/them" on it

>pin that says "I'm with Her"

The ones I've gone to had in shape or thin girls. I find tatts, dyed hair, and piercing's sexy.

>get distracted by some dogs fucking in the theater section
Lost

youll find more rare stuff at an indie shop tho. mostly tho you arent gonna find anything you probably want. i went to the one right outside or colonial williamsburg, next to the college. its in a basement and i had a fun time looking around, but pretentious girls were strutting around saying, "wow, what a cool place. its got so many old books." its literally just a landmark for the area, i dont see how they stay in business. i saw nobody buy anything the hour or so i was looking through the shelves. i bet most of their sales are from buying big old picture books for peoples coffee tables

>I find tatts, dyed hair, and piercing's sexy.
Underage or engineering major?

How do you know they were pretentious?

He could hear their internal monologues.

>I find tatts, dyed hair, and piercing's sexy.

>Underage or engineering major?
He's gotta be engineering, with a neckbeard he thinks is a beard.

>i bet most of their sales are from buying big old picture books for peoples coffee tables
Kramer wins again

>he doesn't have the Diogenes tapes
it just keeps getting richer and richer.

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