Good people

by shamatha

Posted to Utterances on 2003-05-22 20:56:00

Parent message is 454966
are what made the job tolerable.

They sort of exploit the fact that people who work at bookstores are a wierd sort generally who are more than happy to take low-pay in return for getting to be around books all day and to get a discount on those books (and end up blowing too much of their meage pay on those books). . .

I could’ve crossed the street and gotten $4/hr more at Marshall Fields or the Gap but, well, then I’d be working at Marshall Fields or the Gap. . .

Good people, though, yeah. Mixed up soul’s like myself. Artists and writers and filmmakers waiting for that big break, needing a job that wouldn’t kill their soul, where they could congregate with their like, in the meantimes . . .

The foreigners, tourists, Germans, French, Japanese (I got good at understanding accents, a skill, alas, I have since lost. And I could spot a German at 50 paces) would come in and be amazed, utterly, that they could take a book or a magazine up to the cafe, and sit there and read the whole thing without having to pay for it. Pretty cool. . .

Yeah, it wasn’t so bad.

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