We Are Not A Library (Ranty)

[TruthHurts]

See those magazine on that rack there? Well, they are there because we are selling them. We intend to have people pay for them and then read it.

To the woman who comes in every week with her teenage daughters: grow up. It's not cute to watch you try to sneak the celebrity mags in the corner to read them. The library has those same magazines however I don't think they'll tolerate your giggles and squeals over whatever hunk you're into this week.

To the people who hightail it over to the magazines after ordering a sandwich: Seriously?. You cannot find anything else to occupy yourself for the whole 5 minutes that it takes. Will your brain explode if you are not entertained every second of the day?

To the surf nuts who come in every month and try to read the surf magazines cover to cover: cut it out. Surfing is an expensive hobby and so are it's magazines. Either shell out the cash or go wanting.

And to all the above, when those subscription cards drop out of the magazine, put them back. Don't leave them littering the floor and rack while you try to get out of actually paying for the magazine your reading.

[Plaidman]

On that note. To the stoners. Yes. That is a weed magazine. No, I don't think every plant in there is beautiful and/or sexy.

Please wipe the drool off the magazine.

Yes, I belive you, but I just don't care that you have medical marjina card.

No I am not intrested in buying any off you.

No I will not ask customers to buy your weed.

No, I do not sell weed myself.

No, I don't smoke that stuff.

Yeah. sure, that stuff has medical purposes. I'm sure its healthy and it has no ill side effects. But it sure as fuck makes people addicted and obsess with the shit. The potheads in my area, will go to any lengths to smoke it. To look at it. Just to smell it.

Then again, thats the bulk of portlanders.

[Andara Bledin]

Yeah. sure, that stuff has medical purposes. I'm sure its healthy and it has no ill side effects. But it sure as fuck makes people addicted and obsess with the shit. The potheads in my area, will go to any lengths to smoke it. To look at it. Just to smell it.

I know people who pull that crap over coffee.

Addicts pull that no matter what their substance of choice happens to be.

^-.-^

[Plaidman]

I've had coffee additcs. I've had grown men cry over lack of beer. But its the potheads that stick out. They gather around that magazine. They don't even get different magazine, they'll all look at the same one at the same time. Drooling. Salvaing. Bragging about all the different kinds they've grown, the kind they made like blackberry mixture combos and such. It just... yeah. They are so strange.

[TelephoneAngel]

Its just like that in our main chain of newsagents, WHSmith, here, any time you go in you find rows of people reading the newspapers and magazines without paying and nobody ever seems to say anything to stop them.I have also seen people reading the newspapers in the supermarket as if they have a perfect right to do it.

[ralerin]

To the people who hightail it over to the magazines after ordering a sandwich: Seriously?. You cannot find anything else to occupy yourself for the whole 5 minutes that it takes. Will your brain explode if you are not entertained every second of the day?

Judging by the fact that some people pull complete screaming fits if their internet/cable goes out for a millisecond, then yes. Yes it will.

[cinema guy]

But its the potheads that stick out. They gather around that magazine. ... they'll all look at the same one at the same time.

Isn't that like a alcoholic looking at pictures of whiskey.

Or a crackhead watching Scarface.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

We Are Not A Library

We are not a Kwik-E-Mart.

[Mishi]

My husband used to try that, despite having worked in a servo. Ever since I started making him buy the magazine (@$25 a mag) if he took it from it's isle in the supermarket, he's stopped wandering along and reading them unless he actually intends to buy them.

[Geek King]

Judging by the fact that some people pull complete screaming fits if their internet/cable goes out for a millisecond, then yes. Yes it will.

The very reason I don't leave the house without a book. Electronics-failure-proof entertainment as long as you have enough light to see by.

<notes to self: buy small battery operated keychain flashlight>

[ottid]

<notes to self: buy small battery operated keychain flashlight>

You could always get solar powered/hand cranked keychain flashlights, then you don't need a battery...