Even though Valentine's Day isn't a big book-buying holiday, we at Enormous Chain Bookstore are giving it the old college try. Throughout the store, we've filled tables with fruity candy, chocolates, terrifyingly enormous heart- and lip-shaped cookies (Why would anyone want a lip-shaped cookie that is ten times larger than their actual lips? I ask you.) and assorted pink things. Since we're also, on an apparently** unrelated note, selling wind-up fish these days, we seem blithely uncommitted to a "back to basics" approach to bookselling.
It's interesting to see what people are buying. One guy purchased the entire "Sex and the City" series on DVD for his girlfriend, and proceeded to announce that he'd probably find something else to wrap up for the holiday, since he wanted to give it to her immediately, "just because." I couldn't decide whether he should be nominated for the title of World's Most Thoughtful Significant Other or whether it was the type of situation where his heiress girlfriend had just discovered his penchant for underage Asian male prostitutes.
On the other end of the spectrum was the fellow who purchased a card, a copy of "Skinny Bitch" and a tome entitled "1001 Ways To Please Your Man." Which he requested that I gift wrap.
Who needs to say, "I love you," when instead you can say, "Honey, how about taking ten or fifteen off the ol' hips? And, by the way, our love life has been unsatisfying of late. Here are some unsolicited tips as to how you might fine-tune your technique."
Methinks V-Day in that household is going to go down about as well as it did in mine the year my dad bought my mom a Dustbuster.
**I say "apparently" unrelated, because I would immediately get down on my knees for anyone who bought me a wind-up fish for Valentine's Day. As long as there was also an expensive dinner involved.
your "team" finally wins the super bowl and you don't write a post about it? some fan you are.
Posted by: Steve | February 07, 2006 at 10:55 PM