I walked into the bookstore this morning before class hoping to buy this sessions' book. My first mistake is that I took my husband along for company. Yes, *gasp*, I am married. It's really not that strange, just like a live-in boyfriend, only I get to spend his money. Anyway, back to the bookstore. My second mistake was that I had not have my coffee yet. As a result of these two circumstances, I was not my usual, attentive self (attentive according to my standards, ie: putting the milk back in the fridge instead of the cupboard). Needless to say, I could not find the book. Instead of asking for help, I opted to go buy a latte with the hubbie and try to organize my thoughts (emphasis on TRY).
After class, I returned to the bookstore, hoping the hour and a half of class had somehow magically transformed me into a book-finding machine. It did not, and now the bookstore was a million times more crowded, fellow students shoving me all over trying to locate their own class materials. I finally conceded to my pride and decided to ask an employee. As I walked up to the service counter, I realized the guy in front of me was asking for the same book, and the guy behind me also joined in the search. "Yay! I'm not an idiot," was all I could think. I tagged along as a group of three or four of us all looking for New Keywords followed around the student employee looking for the book. Apparently, all five of us were blind. He returned to the counter to look it up on the computer and also asked the mangers, who both adamantly insisted is was on the shelf. I tried telling the man it was nowhere to be found and he commanded me, rather rudely, I must say, back over the the UWP wall. There the other manager angrily pointed to the book and wondered "How in the world none of you guys saw it." We shamefully took the books and mumbled to each other about the rude employees. How dare we not be able to find something? I mean they are not there to help people, obviously. I apologize for my bitterness, but it was a bit startling. However, I think I did learn something: there are a lot of idiots in the world, and I am one of them (as are four or five of my classmates).
3 comments:
haha..very entertaining and funny post. I guess i have been in your situation and it's very embarrassing.
You have outlined one of the central aims of this class: we are all going to strive to become "idiots"—particularly in the face of these 'keywords' that may seem obvious or common sense at first glance. Rather than take meanings for granted, we are going to take the complexities of everyday language seriously—and thereby become curious, articulate 'idiots'.
first of all, like Christ mentioned today in class, I am seeing lines along the white background of the commenting page.
Anyways, yes I believe we are all idiots in our own way; it took me awhile to find the book as well.
And by the way, you have some typos in your blog. (I can think of "self" instead of "shelf" and "there" instead of "they are")
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