Any Miracle will do at B & N

[Guardian]

I finally bit the bullet and went into the big, nasty city to get stuff I can't find outside of the big nasty city.

My first stop was Barnes and Noble. I called ahead and made sure they had a copy of "In Search of the Miraculous" in stock, spelled out the title, author's name, etc. for them. After a few minutes on hold, a very nice young man assured me they had the book, and that it would be waiting at the front desk for me with my name on it.

When I got there to claim my book, a different salesperson handed me "A Course in Miracles." I just busted out laughing. When I told her the book I was actually looking for, she looked it up and informed me that it was out of stock. I guess she could tell I was disappointed so she said "Well, this one is about miracles too" ...pointing to "A Course in Miracles" which still had my name on it.

I said "Hon, that's like offering me a lemon drop you found under your couch cushion after I've ordered chocolate cake" ..at which point we all started laughing, and the young woman began to look up every book on the group reading list at a speed I could never hope to match.

Out of the entire reading list, they only had 3 in stock....which I got.
Meetings with Remarkable Men, The Sociopath Next Door, and Snakes in Suits.

I also found a little book that looks interesting ... "The Power of Nice" by Linda Kaplin Thaler and Robin Koval

I guess I don't have any other option but to order the other books on-line...which I REALLY hate to do. I don't mind if the government knows what I'm doing, but I don't like them knowing what I'm thinking.

 

[Nawd]

LOL! Well Miracles/Miraculous, you were searching for one of the two....

How they could confuse the two, that is and may always be a mystery/mysterious....

I finally bit the bullet and went into the big, nasty city to get stuff I can't find outside of the big nasty city.

My first stop was Barnes and Noble. I called ahead and made sure they had a copy of "In Search of the Miraculous" in stock, spelled out the title, author's name, etc. for them. After a few minutes on hold, a very nice young man assured me they had the book, and that it would be waiting at the front desk for me with my name on it.

When I got there to claim my book, a different salesperson handed me "A Course in Miracles." I just busted out laughing. When I told her the book I was actually looking for, she looked it up and informed me that it was out of stock. I guess she could tell I was disappointed so she said "Well, this one is about miracles too" ...pointing to "A Course in Miracles" which still had my name on it.

I said "Hon, that's like offering me a lemon drop you found under your couch cushion after I've ordered chocolate cake" ..at which point we all started laughing, and the young woman began to look up every book on the group reading list at a speed I could never hope to match.

Out of the entire reading list, they only had 3 in stock....which I got.
Meetings with Remarkable Men, The Sociopath Next Door, and Snakes in Suits.

I also found a little book that looks interesting ... "The Power of Nice" by Linda Kaplin Thaler and Robin Koval

I guess I don't have any other option but to order the other books on-line...which I REALLY hate to do. I don't mind if the government knows what I'm doing, but I don't like them knowing what I'm thinking.

 

[Avi]

Yes, isn't it amazing that B&N carries three books in total off the recommended reading list.

The Power of Nice sounds, well, nice, LOL. Not sure it is my cup of tea by the title, but like the ones you did get Guardian!

Your post made me remember the following poem, by D.H. Lawrence.

No offense to those who are English, but . . . well, from my experience he pretty much nails it.

And yet my ex is English and the end of our relationship was, well, not very nice at all. :(

The English Are So Nice!
By D.H. Lawrence

The English are so nice
so awfully nice
they are the nicest people in the world.

And what’s more, they’re very nice about being nice
about your being nice as well!
If you’re not nice they soon make you feel it.

Americans and French and Germans and so on
they’re all very well
but they’re not really nice, you know.
They’re not nice in our sense of the word, are they now?

That’s why one doesn’t have to take them seriously.
We must be nice to them, of course,
of course, naturally—
But it doesn’t really matter what you say to them,
they don’t really understand—
you can just say anything to them:
be nice, you know, just be nice
but you must never take them seriously, they wouldn’t understand.
Just be nice, you know! oh, fairly nice,
not too nice of course, they take advantage—
but nice enough, just nice enough
to let them feel they’re not quite as nice as they might be.

 

[Beau]

Did you try going to other bookstores in the area? Are their any used bookstores there? If it's a big city, you'd think their would be a few other places to buy books than just the evil B&N.

 

[Guardian]

LOL! Well Miracles/Miraculous, you were searching for one of the two....

How they could confuse the two, that is and may always be a mystery/mysterious....

Makes me wonder what I'd have gotten if I'd asked for "The Earth is Flat" :P

 

[Guardian]

Yes, isn't it amazing that B&N carries three books in total off the recommended reading list.

That's what surprised me. There must be a 100 books on that list minus the ones I already have that I crossed off.

B & N has turned into two stories full of fluff and fantasy. It was soooo disappointing.

 

[Renaissance]

I said "Hon, that's like offering me a lemon drop you found under your couch cushion after I've ordered chocolate cake" ..at which point we all started laughing,

 

[Guardian]

Did you try going to other bookstores in the area? Are their any used bookstores there? If it's a big city, you'd think their would be a few other places to buy books than just the evil B&N.

I'm sure there are, but I'm going to have to do some research to find them as I'm not at all familiar with the area. After we moved from a region I knew like the back of my hand, to an area where I still get lost trying to find my own home, my roommate got me a Garman for my birthday. I'm going to look up all the smaller bookstores on the net, program their addresses into the Garman, and go for it.

I have to work myself up to going into a city...this one is not as bad as some, there are still a few trees and other living things, but it still feels like going swimming in a stinky nasty pond. :(