OK, you have been warned. You’re a busy person with much better things to do than read an endless series of things overheard in New York. As an intelligent person, you’d be too depressed by things like
It’s a Trap! Buy the Schopenhauer!
Guy: Hey, I’m lookin’ for a book.
Lady behind the counter: Um, okay. Did you have any particular one in mind?
Guy, laughing: No. Hell no. I don’t fuckin’ read. I’m just lookin’ for something I can take over to Central Park so I can get hit on by chicks who think I’m smart and shit.
Lady behind counter: Try Nietzsche.
–Barnes & Noble, Broadway between 82nd & 83rd
You know that you’ll waste a ton of time being exposed to the most inane sorts of human discourse (not to mention a lot of language your grandmother just wouldn’t approve of). The fact that the titles are truly hilarious does not make it worth your time.
So don’t go there.
Excuse me while I go change my pants – I think I wet myself laughing while I was reading some of that crazy stuff…
I blame DykstraNet for the pointer.
