Mostly I open at about eleven-thirty, so I can catch a few customers on their lunch hours. All the new best sellers--mostly lousy in my opinion--are o...n racks near the door, discounted heavily, of course, and I keep a good stock of trade books and high-class paperbacks up front where they can catch the browsers.This woman, though, I know her. She's going to head for the mystery shelf, or maybe the contemporary fiction. Fairly lightweight stuff. At least she's got good taste in the genres she. She knew me quite well. Enough to know something was up and I would need to think quickly. “Just something a client told me yesterday, in confidence. It was so funny, I wish I could share it!” “It must have been good, the way you were smiling. If I didn’t know better, I would think you got laid!” Hmmmm, that is one perceptive woman! Note to self: Be more careful about smiling! Jenny, I was so pleasantly surprised yesterday, for several reasons. I have met a few women from Craigslist, but never. It was a mild evening, but the weather was forecast as changeable and I had to bear in mind that on the previous day London had 6mm rain fall overnight, while the week before the worst gales to hit the British Isles for over twenty years had caused 21 deaths just a hundred miles north east of London. So I took with me the James Smith & Son brolly I normally kept locked in the boot, just in case it was raining when we left to return to the car. I had to drive around for twenty minutes and. And besides, you kind of fit the profile of guys that might like to suck cock.” I could hardly believe what I was hearing and asked, “What the fuck do you mean that I fit the profile? What damn profile? Pardon me for saying so, but you must be a little confused in the head.” Max laughed again and said, “You’ve been running by here for months now, and you always seem to smile and wave at any of the workmen who are near the trail. In this part of the country that seemed a little too friendly to.
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