There May Be More Than One Reason I'm Not Currently Allowed In Public.
I've suddenly remembered the time I found the final volume of Revolutionary Girl Utena at a local fair's second-hand book stall. I was openly very excited, because I'd been struggling to find a copy.
The middle-aged man running the book stall obviously had no idea what manga was. '...It's a strange book, isn't it?' he asked, hesitantly.
Suddenly, the cover design really hit me.
I internally went '...oh. Oh. He thinks it's porn. He thinks I'm really excited that I've finally found the porn I've been searching for.'
He asked for fifty pence for it, and I thought 'it costs twenty pounds online! I'm going to at least give him a pound' and only realised as I walked away that, to him, I would always be the person who was SO EXCITED to find her long-searched-for threesome porn that she paid him double for it.
('And is it porn?' my mother asked when I told her this story. Surprisingly, no.)
I invite you to share any embarrassing stories of your own in the comments!
The middle-aged man running the book stall obviously had no idea what manga was. '...It's a strange book, isn't it?' he asked, hesitantly.
Suddenly, the cover design really hit me.
I internally went '...oh. Oh. He thinks it's porn. He thinks I'm really excited that I've finally found the porn I've been searching for.'
He asked for fifty pence for it, and I thought 'it costs twenty pounds online! I'm going to at least give him a pound' and only realised as I walked away that, to him, I would always be the person who was SO EXCITED to find her long-searched-for threesome porn that she paid him double for it.
('And is it porn?' my mother asked when I told her this story. Surprisingly, no.)
I invite you to share any embarrassing stories of your own in the comments!