sex and V.D.

[lincolnkw]

I completely forgot to share the Valenties Day madness at the store.

Do you know just how many people take the idea of Valendtines and use it to bring sex into their lives?

A damn lot of them.

Our sex section at the store is wiped out. People came in, up until, closing looking for the Kama Sutra books, the Susan Corn books, any books on spicing up the sex life they could find.

it was quite amusing. My favorite wasthe lady, in her 60s if she was a day, looking for something on fantiasies for her and her husband. So funny. The clerk had the strangest look on her face while helping the customer. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

And then, of course, the usual allotment of emo teens coming in and being nuicances. Rearranging things, asking people for money (if we catch that, out they go), taking adult mags into the kid sdepartment (another out the door), or my favorite - taking the adult stuff into the religion section.

Why? Just stand there and look at the things. We won't say anything unless you look abviously under 18. And we don't carry anything with pictures truly XXX rated. Except for Penthouse which I'm still surprised we carry.

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[theboyy.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

This post amused me.

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[lincolnkw.livejournal.com]

another favorite was the dad teaching his two sons about the birds and the bees using a couple of the books. Both boys (maybe 12 - 13) were bright red and I could hear one of the m whispering "dad...dad...not here...dad!" I just about ran to the stock room to laugh.

I love just glancing over at the sex and gay sections to see who's there when I walk though the store.

[theboyy.livejournal.com]

What store is it?

Not only do I love watching the people who are by those sections, but I love going to them myself too. The sex and gay books are always the most entertaining to peruse through. *g*

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[lincolnkw.livejournal.com]

Borders in Concord, NH.

I love watching the people who aretrying to sneak into those sections. So cute.

[stormwynd.livejournal.com]

This post reminded me of some of the stuff that went on when I worked in the main undergraduate library while in college. It was always fun to watch people try to check out The Joy of Sex or the Kama Sutra without looking embarassed. A lot of times, they would bury the book in the middle of a huge stack of lit crit or history books or something -- kind of like going to a newsstand to buy porn and getting copies of Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Details along with the latest issue of Bondage Boys Monthly.

One term, a professor teaching a course on human sexual behavior had placed all the copies of The Joy of Sex on closed reserve, which meant that you could only check the book out for two hours, and you couldn't take it out of the library. My supervisor, upon seeing this, remarked, "Is two hours enough time? Some of those positions are really difficult to get into. Trust me, I know. And do we really want people doing this *in* the library?"

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[lincolnkw.livejournal.com]

Bwa ha haa!

That's just too funny. That's also one of those comments, that from the wrong person, is TMI. I would seriously be squicked if any of my managers said anything like that. Some of my staff members, on the other hand...Oh, some of the conversations we've had at the information desk or inthe break room. They so cross the line in our handbook.

[stormwynd.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about TMI, but it sounded perfectly natural coming from this particular woman. OK, not *natural*, but we'd come to expect and appreciate comments like that from her. And the fact that it was 9 p.m. on a Friday night and none of us really wanted to be at work helped.