Oddballs #1 and 2
There is this couple who come into the bookstore every day and act really shifty -- looking from side to side constantly, circling around the same display tables for 20 minutes, patting the pockets of their jackets from time and time and twiddling with the zips. It is classic shoplifting behavior except they never take anything. Yesterday the male kept picking up bargain-priced baby board books and sniffing the corners. Over and over.
Oddball #3
A beefy guy comes into the bookstore most evenings and sits at one of the cafe tables thumbing through a stack of our weightlifting magazines. Like 10 or 15 magazines. He sits there for hours, sometimes drinking coffee, sometimes not paying a cent for his entertainment. At 11pm, when the store closes and the managers stand by the doors jangling their keys meaningfully, he stays at his table until he is the only remaining customer. Then he stands, leaves the mags on the table for us to put away and wanders off into the night. Lately he has taken to giving me career advice. He reckons I should move to LA.
Oddball #4
A crusty old guy who always has plastic bags in his hands, and poking out of his pockets, and generally looks like his clothes are made of plastic, likes to wanders through the store of an evening. Last time he was looking for a book on how to fight your speeding ticket ("they" are out to get him) but his real passion is science. Global warming is a hoax, people. Dreamed up by big corporations to make them richer. You heard it from Plastic Man.
Oddball #5
A rather dandified man in a chocolate colored suit, highly polished shoes and a fedora walked past my counter yesterday afternoon. "My, my, you are beautiful," he said. "There should be a song for you. My name is Gorgeous, I work by Starbucks..."
Saturday, March 10, 2007
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