I have some of my most profound thoughts while pooping. Like my thoughts are metaphorically the shit. I dump out some waste but occasionally there is the unmistakable vital nutrient that I was too busy bullshitting to absorb. For instance, amongst the spam and forwards known as my email box, I came across this picture, shook my head, and proceeded to delete. But taking my evening dump this picture floated across my mind again and I gave myself the evil eye for not paying closer attention.
A Barnes & Noble in Coral Gables, Florida had a display honoring President Obama. In the center of the display? A book titled Monkeys. Surrounding the monkey book were books boasting President Obama and crew's delicious faces.
Sitting there patiently waiting, I silently screamed that I would take this opportunity to fulfill my destiny: to tinkle alllll over the self-help section of a chain bookstore (making sure to miss Suze Orman's Young, Broke, and Fabulous since it clearly has changed my life). But after further research I found that B&N had nothing to do with the scandal…..
Official statement from Barnes & Noble, Inc.:
Barnes & Noble would like to publicly apologize for what happened in our Coral Gables, Florida store. We believe that a customer played a cruel joke and placed an inappropriate title in the front window of our store, where we were featuring books written by or about President Obama. We want to assure our customers that the book placed by someone other than our booksellers was never intended to be included in our display and was removed as soon as we became aware of the situation. We are looking into it and are taking the steps necessary so that it does not happen again. From time to time customers will move titles from one area of the store to another. In this particular case, we do not condone whatever message may have been intended with the placement of this title in our Presidential display. It certainly was not part of our merchandising and we regret that we didn't see the placement of this title immediately.
Mary Ellen Keating, Spokesperson
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
You win this time B&N. But I will be waiting to fulfill my destiny!
3 comments:
I feel like I've been here before, but I don't remember when and why I haven't been back sooner.
Peeing in a bookstore? All over books? Why not? Take a picture. I'd like to see the fall out...
u havent been back because i havent been writing. shame on me. i know....yeah...i have a think...with peeing. I dnt know what my problem is.
i just had to give a biiiig lol to this one because...hello bookstore junkie here. my store was on Obama Hater watch!
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