Tonight’s amusing conversation with the Handsome Marketboy

[annathepiper]

So there I am stopping by my marketboys on the way home for my evening round of tasty!fruit when I find that my favorite Handsome Marketboy has the stand all to himself. Hurray, I’m thinking, as he says hi and asks me how my day has gone.

I tell him I have to work tonight but a nice man is about to sell me blackberries and an avocado, so hey! And he asks me what I do with all the money.

Buy books, mostly, I say–because as you know, my children, some women buy purses or shoes, but me, I buy books!

Handsome Marketboy looks a bit boggled and asks, have I not heard of the library? It’s like Netflix, only for books! I explain that I want to Own All of the Books, because this man clearly has no conception of how much I read. I am, obviously, going to have to explain this to him. ;)

(After, of course, I buy All of the Blackberries. Because nom.)

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Comments

[annathepiper]

Yeah, that's kind of the vibe I was getting from him, i.e., "wait, why are you actually bothering to spend money on books?" :)

I look forward to explaining "because I love to support my favorite authors by buying their work" and maybe finding out what he likes to read too.