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I work in a used bookstore where we have very strict policies on when we buy for cash but very relaxed ones on when we look at books for store credit. So, when a man came up to the counter and said, "Do you do trades?" I said "Yes" before even looking at him, because we do, and I answer that question many times a day. "Would you be willing to do a book trade for this?" he wants to know, and I look to see what horrible rain-soaked Dan Brown or Jodi Picoult or Nicholas Sparks or god help us all Chuck Palahniuk I am going to have to be polite about, but no! He has got three sprigs of holly in his hand and he looks very hopeful.
So...I said no, no books for holly, because I like to crush whimsy beneath my bootheels. But maybe I should have said yes? He took it well, thanked me anyway, went down the poetry aisle and never came back out, just disappeared altogether.
(I just joined the community. By way of introduction here is the story of the best customer I have ever had in my life, and here is the Parable of the Three Bookstore Children.)
So...I said no, no books for holly, because I like to crush whimsy beneath my bootheels. But maybe I should have said yes? He took it well, thanked me anyway, went down the poetry aisle and never came back out, just disappeared altogether.
(I just joined the community. By way of introduction here is the story of the best customer I have ever had in my life, and here is the Parable of the Three Bookstore Children.)