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.)

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

Comments

[paulwoodlin.livejournal.com]

Go easy on him. Chances are a guy with his job description uses the library because he can't afford to buy books. Assuming he really does read a lot.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

"Hoping he'll get to know you better" uh huh I bet you are!

Hee, I hadn't noticed the 'tasty market boys are tasty' link til today :)

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Re the market boy and the books -- he sounds like my ex, who was a library director and saw absolutely no reason to buy books with his own money. When I left him, I had two very small boxes of books. I now (eighteen years later) have mostly full bookcases in every room of my condo except one of the two bathrooms (the other bathroom is combined with the laundry room off the kitchen and has a bookshelf with my cookbooks in it), for a total of five bookcases, the largest of which is 8 feet wide and tall.

[paulwoodlin.livejournal.com]

Oh, BTW, your comment about buying books reminded me of the best line from a movie "Ballistic" in which Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas play covert ops agents. LL takes AB down to her batcave and he admires all the weapons. "WHere did you get all these guns?" he asks.

"Some women buy shoes."

Unfortunately I just gave away one of the two jokes in the movie.