Short and Stupid

[WHShit]

Had a woman in the other day. She had her kid with her. She asks me if we have any dragon books.

I say I will check in the stockroom. She says "Any will do, fact or fiction".

I think to myself "dragon fact books do not exist, but maybe she just slipped up".

I bring out a Dragonology book and she seems happy. I hear her say to her kid "Oh, look at this one, Dragonology...it's a fact book"!

Hmm....no, it is not. Dragons can't have books about them based on fact, because dragons are not real.

[blas]

Don't ruin her dreams, hun, you might end up getting in trouble over it....

"I want a manager, how DARE you tell me dragons aren't real!"

[DGoddessChardonnay]

And for the love of Pete, don't tell her about either Santa or the Easter Bunny . . .

Fairies also come to mind too.

[MoonChild2007]

I can't help but notice the short and stupid topic name. Is that referring to the post ( not that its stupid or anything) or the woman?

[WHShit]

Short was the post. Stupid was the woman.

[Bloodsoul]

Dr-Dragons are still real! Tolkien said so! A-And he was a professor! O_O

*runs off crying while huggling Charizard*

[Broomjockey]

Do not taint the geneology of dragons with that puny pokémon!

In her defence, Dragonology presents as fact. Meaning, it isn't a story book, but instead a "logical and scientific" discussion of dragons and their properties, physiology and such.

Also, she may have simply not been destroying the child's fantasies, just as parents don't tell about the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy, and quite often encourage such beliefs.

[WHShit]

Do not taint the geneology of dragons with that puny pokémon!

In her defence, Dragonology presents as fact. Meaning, it isn't a story book, but instead a "logical and scientific" discussion of dragons and their properties, physiology and such.

Also, she may have simply not been destroying the child's fantasies, just as parents don't tell about the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy, and quite often encourage such beliefs.

I know that Dragonology looks like a fact book, but she was just stupid. It really had nothing to do with her trying to make the kid happy in the fact that dragons were real. She mentioned tham being "fact" while he was not anywhere near me.

Fact is...dragons are not real. They have fairy "fact" books as well....are they real? No. We also sell Wizardology.....not real.

[Broomjockey]

I know that Dragonology looks like a fact book, but she was just stupid. It really had nothing to do with her trying to make the kid happy in the fact that dragons were real. She mentioned tham being "fact" while he was not anywhere near me.

Oooookaaayyyy, that changes things if she said it while the kid wasn't around. She's nuts.

[Rubystars]

You should have gotten her a 'fact' book on Komodo dragons.

[Imogene]

*blinks* Dragons as they exist in the world currently look nothing like those presented in mythology. Most dragons currently reside in human form. At least, they will until the day I figure out how to release them.

Mmm, carbonite, you're my only friend.

[Becks]

Meh. I'll just go on believing that there is a chance that dragons are real.




I'm just not right in the head.

[customersruinmylife]

A few years ago, I was at a zoo and me and my parents were looking at the lions, when this woman came up to us with her kid and said:

"Excuse me, do you know where the unicorns are?"

My dad was so shocked I thought he was going to fall backwards into the lion enclosure.

[Tria]

"Excuse me, do you know where the unicorns are?"

*Points to horse corral* Oh you can't see the horn? Unworthy bitch. :P

But seriously, you don't put unicorns in cages!

[cinema guy]

I thought everyone knew that the Unicorns wouldn't get on Noah's ark, so they drowned.