I know the Season of Senseless Spending isn’t over yet but I thought I’d write a little note since I have a tiny window of opportunity this morning (I’m sober). Book sales went through the roof this summer when I started telling my customers that the pocketbook they were buying was actually an e-reader and where the hell else could they get an e-reader for $5.95. Now it’s true that most of my customers ignore this remark but a few are delighted with the deal and isn’t it all about delighting your customers? Things get even better when some come back complaining that their Beazleybook e-reader seems to be frozen on one single book. Obviously a Microsoft Windows crash, I explain, but it’s easy-peasy to fix. I just replace the old book with a new book and charge $9 for the repair (OK, so it’s only really a reboot) but I guarantee my product so I’ll repair the damn thing every time it breaks.
Now like most adults, I wish the holiday season lasted for only 1 long week-end. Imagine only three days of attack-dog style shopping, artery-blocking meals and frozen hours in the car driving to yet another damn family meal, maybe the one where old Uncle Maxwell forgets where he is and starts shouting that he won’t eat another bite until his catheter is removed.
On sale at the store this week*:
Fire Eating, A Manual of Instruction
1993. The perfect gift for the grandchildren. Some pages are water-stained.
The Permanent War or Homo the Sap
1943. I don't know what the hell this book is about.
Butterflies in my Stomach, The Insect World as a Source of Human Food
1975. At last, the definitive work on this holiday season subject
Purgatory Quizzes to a Street Preacher, Catholigetic Subjects Baffling to Converts
1939. No, 'Catholigetic' is not a typo.
Your Basement Fallout Shelter, Survival in Likely Target areas
1963. Has fold-out building diagrams, great place to sit and cry during the next financial melt-down.
*Prices are a pittance, and only one copy of each book is available, so hurry in while supplies last!
'Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day.
ReplyDeleteSet a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.' : )
God, and all the corporate CEOs in the world, will get you for this, Pierre!
ReplyDeleteOh Pierre, you forgot the one on display in your window that made me chortle on my New Year's Day stroll! "How to Embalm Your Mother-in-Law" So ... how was Christmas with the Griswold family?
ReplyDeleteI think Apu would say something along the lines of, "You magnificent bastard, I salute you!"
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