Nerdvember 20, 2008

Category: dribblings

i think i mentioned somewhere on this thing, or maybe Twitter, this particular thing, but i can’t get it out of my head. and now, once a day i replay the convo in my head and come up with responses to the guy that i should have said. do you ever do that?

so this guy comes in and he picks out a couple of books and i don’t even pay attention to what they are. he says to me he says, “i’m having to branch out of my regular reading material.”

so i play along because it’s rude not to, “oh yeah? what’s your usual?”

“the Civil War.”

there’s a ton of guys who come in and mainly checkout books on the Civil War. i get the feeling that they know a lot about the Civil War but that maybe, possibly, they haven’t actually learned anything from it. if you know what i mean.

i don’t much care to read about the Civil War, but I do like reading about Abraham Lincoln. in fact, i was excited when i kept hearing the media mention Team of Rivals by DKG (and comparing it to Obama’s cabinet. except now that he’s picking people i don’t see the comparison.) because it’s such an interesting book about Lincoln’s cabinet members. honestly, it’s not as boring as it sounds. S’anyway, Honest Abe and his crazy face, there are no shortage of books on him.

i say to the guy, “well, if you’re tired of reading about battles and things, we’ve a new book on Lincoln that came in yesterday.”

that guy gives me a dirty look and says, “Lincoln was an idiot!” with such venom in his voice! and he took his books and left. and i just stood there, shocked, mouth open. and i just wish i would have called him on it to explain what the hell he was talking about because hello, Lincoln an idiot? i’ve never heard ANYONE say something like that before about Lincoln. who says something like that?

that junk has been bothering me for days.

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