The recent issue of Consumer Reports has arrived in mailboxes. Like many magazines, they have a funny page in the back. Most often it is bizarre labellng on packages.
The current issue has this photo of a sign on the bathroom door at the now-defunct Borders bookstore in Traverse City, Michigan:
"Sorry, No Public Restroom.
Try Amazon.com"
The Borders has long since closed, and has been replaced with a similar large diverse (books, greeting cards, music, electronics. movies) bookstore called Books-a-Million, or "BAM!"The big sign over the door says "BAM!". No word whether or not Books-a-Million got permission from Emeril Lagasse. And I don't know yet if they refer would-be bathroom goers to Amazon.com still.
Those who are thinking of going into a bookstore bathroom and taking a book with them had best view this video on the perils of the toilet book:
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That Seinfeld video was hilarious!!
This reminds of a time when I was in a pharmacy and a mother asked if her little girl (about 3yrs) could please use their restroom, she was told to go elsewhere!!
I took my prescription and walked out. I was disgusted. This was a little baby who in no way could make it to another store.
Funny post!
Its sad about the decline of book stores. I used to love to collect books and every pay day I'd come home with 3 to 5 books. But the price of reading has gone to a place that I no longer feel that I can afford. I've had to trim that way back now to where I only buy a real book for special occasions. My e reader is way less expensive and I never have to dust it.
Silly Rabbit, I have started visiting a used book store, and sometimes the our library will have book sales. Otherwise, I am stuck like you and I DO NOT want a kindle or some other gadget. I happen to enjoy flipping pages and holding an actual book in my hand. I feel your pain.
I'm not commenting, because as a bookstore owner I have a dog in the fight, but I'll be watching comments on this post with interest.
All you book lovers will hate this ghastly old post:
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My personal library has been piling up. I finally got more
shelf space by getting rid of a
1967 set of Encyclopedia Brittanica. I was pretty sure it
would have to go as recycled paper, but darn if the local
Goodwill accepted the set. I still
can't figure out who, in this day and age, would want 8 feet of
paper encyclopedia! (and like Borders, we actually had a passerby
come in needing the bathroom...)
Who doesn't love a book in the bathroom (well, besides other people who might buy the book afterward!) :)
I remember that original post very well!
There were a couple of great used bookstores near me, but they've both gone out of business. I miss them.
Big box books... Gone the way of the sleestak.
In Traverse City, the empty Big Box has already been filled with a new bookstore.
In our family house, growing up--five people, one bathroom--my father referred to the bathroom as "the library" because someone was always in there reading while someone else was outside, banging on the door.
Yes, the "BAM!" store quickly replaced the Borders.
That was an unbelievable episode. I especially liked it when George got threatened by that big, fat black lady named Rebecca DeMornay.
Funny Video. lol.
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