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I was thinking, as I was riding the bus to work, that no one has commented on earlier closing for quite some time now. So, of course, some snotty customer had to bring it up.

SnottyCustomer: *flips through random sports magazine* Sure would be nice if you guys still stayed open until 11. Bet you don't, though. *looks pointedly over magazine at me, because I have so much power in that store.

Me: *disgustingly cheery* That's right!

SnottyCustomer: You know, there are places that are open around the clock. *voice dripping with condescension*

Me: We're not in New York, this area really can't support 'round the clock bookstores. *struggling to keep disgustingly cheery but drifting into STFU*

SnottyCustomer: I bet they do in Chicago. *eyes roll so hard they fall out of his head*

Me: *ignores eye balls rolling around the magazine department and continues to straighten, while changing subject to the first house I owned, the possum I found in the kitchen and the gas stove that used to heat the whole house*

SnottyCustomer: *is convinced I'm a total cowtown hoosier, questions, in an amazed tone, that I only found the one possum and physically moves two feet away so as not to have to share air with me anymore*

Me: *smug that I got him to STFU*

*curtain falls with assistant manager announcing the store is now closed in an OhThankGod tone*

Crossposted from bn_booksellers