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Sometimes I really fucking hate being a goddamn nerd. Tonight I randomly went to Borders with Michi. For some odd reason I enjoy going there with her. Maybe because she takes to that store like my family does. My Mom is a teacher and endorses reading to the crazy extreme, meaning that she pretty much doesn't pay attention to cost when it comes to books. If you want to read about a subject, she'll buy the book for you. At least if you're family or friend.
As such, we went book shopping constantly and still do. When we go into a book store it's like a mini army is being set loose because the family separates and goes off in different directions. Like some sort of fucking reading platoon whose mission is to fucking buy as many books as we can before the line gets too long. lol. My mother shops in Mystery, Magazines, Horror, and Children/Youth because she taught in the First Grade, and still substitute teaches, for 20 plus years. While my brother is all about History, Politics, and occasionally Graphic Novels. And myself? Fucking, duh. I'm always in Graphic Novels and I usually wander over to Music and Movies even though those are just way too expensive for me to consider purchasing while at Borders. Sorry, I fucking love the stores but goddamn are those sections pricey. Sucks ass. But soon as we get into a book store it's automatic, we flank into our chosen sections and usually end up congregating to the person who takes the longest to decide which books they want. Usually that's my brother. He's a slow reader. Fucking analytical that kid. I love him.
Michi is the same way which is super groovy. We get into Borders and like the sad nerd that I am I make a beeline for the Graphic Novel section while Michi ends up over in Self Help. Dude, please don't ask me. Actually, okay, here's yet another reason my girlfriend kicks ass. She buys Self Help books because she thinks they're funny. She reads them for entertainment and highlights the passages she thinks are the most stupidly hilarious in their cliche attempt to be fucking deep when really they're just spewing the same old common sense shit that we've heard all of our lives. I know, it's so weird but I think it fucking rocks. It's such a cool quirk to have. Plus it's super fucking funny when people come over to her apartment and see like row upon row of Self Help books and then look at my ultra together girlfriend all unsure and uneasy upon seeing them and her reaction is to stare at them all droll and say, "I have deep seeded issues. The books are curing me."
Hee. I hug her mentally as I think of it. It's that fucking funny.
But tonight we went to Borders and I made a beeline for sad nerdy Graphic Novels and she went over to hilarious Self Help. When I got to my section I found something I really fucking hate to see. Other nerds. The kind of nerds that make me fucking loathe the fact that I am among their numbers. What kind of nerds are those? I'll just do a short list of the characteristics that make me despise them so.
1. Talk fucking painfully annoyingly articulately as to make themselves sound smart but in reality they just make themselves sound like they have no social skills in the slightest. Which is the truth of the matter. They don't.
2. Have no concept of privacy or other people or any sort of social rules of conduct. Meaning they think it's perfectly normal to just fucking stand for hours upon hours chit chatting about whatever goddamn Anime they're watching on Cartoon Network in a tiny ass aisle in Borders at such a fucking loud tone of voice that anyone within three feet can hear their entire conversation. And I don't give a fucking shit about goddamn Samurai Champloo.
3. No idea of what it is to actually go out and do something. Meaning that their idea of having fun is to go shopping for nerdy things such as comic books, anime, video games, and to then stand around for hours in the stores which sell these things and discuss which to buy and then to finally either 1) not buy anything or 2) buy the cheapest thing there after tormenting clerks at said store with aimless fucking questions or attempts to suck them into dumbass nerdy discussions on shit said clerks don't care about.
You know these fucks? You know that you know these fucks! You must know them. Everyone knows them and most everyone hates them. I hate them and some of them are my friends.
MY GOD, HOW I FUCKING HATE THEM!
Phew. Sorry. Just a residual bit of retail rage letting loose there. Sorry, but over the years I've worked in a lot of nerd oriented stores such as Tower Music, Gamestop, Suncoast, and Barnes & Noble and there's nothing I hate more than having to deal with this subsection of the nerd population. I mean, my god, stores are for fucking shopping!
SHOPPING!
And if you want to goddamn chit chat in Borders they have a CAFE FOR THAT! It's why it was built! To get you sad ass fuckers out of my goddamn Graphic Novel section!
Wow. I have a lot more residual rage than I thought. Whatever though. I went to my precious Graphic Novel section searching for a few specific manga that I wanted to buy as in purchase as in spend money as in not fucking stand in the goddamn aisle discussing annoying ass nerd shit and not actually give the store any business at all and found myself greeted by three of the aforementioned nerd types that I hate. Two male and one female. They were speaking of the also aforementioned Samurai Champloo and badly fucking up pronunciations of things.
Annoying Nerd Pronunciations:
Anime = An-Eeeeek-Me
Manga = Ming-Gah
OVA = Oh-Va
Yeah, yeah... they fucking pronounced OVA. Instead of just saying O and then V and then A like any self respecting fucking anime and manga focused nerd would do they sounded it out. All while refusing to move out the way, despite my fucking dirty looks and verbal request/order for them to do so. I just wanted to fucking see if Death Note vol. 5 was in stock. It was so I was somewhat calmed by that. I was about to go nuts as I listened to them continue to butcher pronunciations when my friend Chris who works at the store saw me. She came over to chat and since she had on the lanyard of power that showed she was a Borders employee and could do what she wanted she just fucking plowed through them and managed to make them scurry off to another section. I spent ten minutes or so venting with her and listening to her tell the horror stories of the night. One of which included a customer which farted on her head when she was putting away books on a bottom shelf. I know, so gross. But sadly not uncommon in retail.
I gathered the rest of the manga I wanted and we wandered over to find Michi in Self Help. As we walked away I poked Chris and told her to count down as we peered over our shoulders at the Graphic Novel section. By the fucking count of four those assholes were back in their precious aisle chatting loudly and not buying shit. I asked Chris to phone me at the end of the night to tell me if they bought anything. She phoned an hour or so ago. What do you think the result is? Drum roll, please...!
NOTHING. FUCKING NOTHING! THEY BOUGHT NOTHING AND WERE IN THAT AISLE CHATTING FOR OVER THREE HOURS!!
And that is what makes me angry as a former retail worker and as a focused shopper. I go shopping with specific items in mind that I want and I get really irked when I'm unable to efficiently see if those items are in stock because fucking social misfit nerd assholes are blocking me with their freakish attempts to be "cool" or whatever the fuck they think they're doing when they hang out in stores for hours talking way too loud and blocking aisles. It pisses me off and as a former retail worker I also know how goddamn annoying it is for the staff at the store because these people almost never buy anything and when they do it's fucking piddling shit compared to what could have been sold by the people who get annoyed by them and simply give up and leave rather than try to get them move through the power of subtle social interaction. It fails each time! Why? Because they have NO SOCIAL SKILLS and they can't read social cues like the rest of the population can and even if they can and know that you want them to move they don't fucking care! They're nerd assholes!
Hahaha. Dude. I sound so pissed off. I'm not though. I can rant like this without being really angry. But whatever. They didn't buy anything while I bought seven shiny new manga and used my personal shopping day and got 10% off my total purchase. Which also included Michi's new Self Help book Taming Your Inner Brat: A Guide For Transforming Self-Defeating Behavior. I know, dude. I love my girlfriend too. And no, you cannot fucking have her. She's all mine. lol. But I will let you have this super awesome angry but funny song by one of my favorite ska bands of all time! Listen away!
Angry Anthem by The Forces of Evil:
http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=4A963154274AA38A
I have been super busy with working my two full time jobs but I somehow managed to get Saturday off which means I'll be sleeping in and finally starting work on Part 4 of All The White Horses. No! I haven't forgotten about Danish or my love of that ship and my more important love of Alice and writing fanfiction focused on her. I just hope I'll be able to start more extensive work on Alice's Chart sometime soon. Random link plug!
http://www.aliceschart.net/
Bwahaha. I love pimping my nerdy shit. It's fun.
As such, we went book shopping constantly and still do. When we go into a book store it's like a mini army is being set loose because the family separates and goes off in different directions. Like some sort of fucking reading platoon whose mission is to fucking buy as many books as we can before the line gets too long. lol. My mother shops in Mystery, Magazines, Horror, and Children/Youth because she taught in the First Grade, and still substitute teaches, for 20 plus years. While my brother is all about History, Politics, and occasionally Graphic Novels. And myself? Fucking, duh. I'm always in Graphic Novels and I usually wander over to Music and Movies even though those are just way too expensive for me to consider purchasing while at Borders. Sorry, I fucking love the stores but goddamn are those sections pricey. Sucks ass. But soon as we get into a book store it's automatic, we flank into our chosen sections and usually end up congregating to the person who takes the longest to decide which books they want. Usually that's my brother. He's a slow reader. Fucking analytical that kid. I love him.
Michi is the same way which is super groovy. We get into Borders and like the sad nerd that I am I make a beeline for the Graphic Novel section while Michi ends up over in Self Help. Dude, please don't ask me. Actually, okay, here's yet another reason my girlfriend kicks ass. She buys Self Help books because she thinks they're funny. She reads them for entertainment and highlights the passages she thinks are the most stupidly hilarious in their cliche attempt to be fucking deep when really they're just spewing the same old common sense shit that we've heard all of our lives. I know, it's so weird but I think it fucking rocks. It's such a cool quirk to have. Plus it's super fucking funny when people come over to her apartment and see like row upon row of Self Help books and then look at my ultra together girlfriend all unsure and uneasy upon seeing them and her reaction is to stare at them all droll and say, "I have deep seeded issues. The books are curing me."
Hee. I hug her mentally as I think of it. It's that fucking funny.
But tonight we went to Borders and I made a beeline for sad nerdy Graphic Novels and she went over to hilarious Self Help. When I got to my section I found something I really fucking hate to see. Other nerds. The kind of nerds that make me fucking loathe the fact that I am among their numbers. What kind of nerds are those? I'll just do a short list of the characteristics that make me despise them so.
1. Talk fucking painfully annoyingly articulately as to make themselves sound smart but in reality they just make themselves sound like they have no social skills in the slightest. Which is the truth of the matter. They don't.
2. Have no concept of privacy or other people or any sort of social rules of conduct. Meaning they think it's perfectly normal to just fucking stand for hours upon hours chit chatting about whatever goddamn Anime they're watching on Cartoon Network in a tiny ass aisle in Borders at such a fucking loud tone of voice that anyone within three feet can hear their entire conversation. And I don't give a fucking shit about goddamn Samurai Champloo.
3. No idea of what it is to actually go out and do something. Meaning that their idea of having fun is to go shopping for nerdy things such as comic books, anime, video games, and to then stand around for hours in the stores which sell these things and discuss which to buy and then to finally either 1) not buy anything or 2) buy the cheapest thing there after tormenting clerks at said store with aimless fucking questions or attempts to suck them into dumbass nerdy discussions on shit said clerks don't care about.
You know these fucks? You know that you know these fucks! You must know them. Everyone knows them and most everyone hates them. I hate them and some of them are my friends.
MY GOD, HOW I FUCKING HATE THEM!
Phew. Sorry. Just a residual bit of retail rage letting loose there. Sorry, but over the years I've worked in a lot of nerd oriented stores such as Tower Music, Gamestop, Suncoast, and Barnes & Noble and there's nothing I hate more than having to deal with this subsection of the nerd population. I mean, my god, stores are for fucking shopping!
SHOPPING!
And if you want to goddamn chit chat in Borders they have a CAFE FOR THAT! It's why it was built! To get you sad ass fuckers out of my goddamn Graphic Novel section!
Wow. I have a lot more residual rage than I thought. Whatever though. I went to my precious Graphic Novel section searching for a few specific manga that I wanted to buy as in purchase as in spend money as in not fucking stand in the goddamn aisle discussing annoying ass nerd shit and not actually give the store any business at all and found myself greeted by three of the aforementioned nerd types that I hate. Two male and one female. They were speaking of the also aforementioned Samurai Champloo and badly fucking up pronunciations of things.
Annoying Nerd Pronunciations:
Anime = An-Eeeeek-Me
Manga = Ming-Gah
OVA = Oh-Va
Yeah, yeah... they fucking pronounced OVA. Instead of just saying O and then V and then A like any self respecting fucking anime and manga focused nerd would do they sounded it out. All while refusing to move out the way, despite my fucking dirty looks and verbal request/order for them to do so. I just wanted to fucking see if Death Note vol. 5 was in stock. It was so I was somewhat calmed by that. I was about to go nuts as I listened to them continue to butcher pronunciations when my friend Chris who works at the store saw me. She came over to chat and since she had on the lanyard of power that showed she was a Borders employee and could do what she wanted she just fucking plowed through them and managed to make them scurry off to another section. I spent ten minutes or so venting with her and listening to her tell the horror stories of the night. One of which included a customer which farted on her head when she was putting away books on a bottom shelf. I know, so gross. But sadly not uncommon in retail.
I gathered the rest of the manga I wanted and we wandered over to find Michi in Self Help. As we walked away I poked Chris and told her to count down as we peered over our shoulders at the Graphic Novel section. By the fucking count of four those assholes were back in their precious aisle chatting loudly and not buying shit. I asked Chris to phone me at the end of the night to tell me if they bought anything. She phoned an hour or so ago. What do you think the result is? Drum roll, please...!
NOTHING. FUCKING NOTHING! THEY BOUGHT NOTHING AND WERE IN THAT AISLE CHATTING FOR OVER THREE HOURS!!
And that is what makes me angry as a former retail worker and as a focused shopper. I go shopping with specific items in mind that I want and I get really irked when I'm unable to efficiently see if those items are in stock because fucking social misfit nerd assholes are blocking me with their freakish attempts to be "cool" or whatever the fuck they think they're doing when they hang out in stores for hours talking way too loud and blocking aisles. It pisses me off and as a former retail worker I also know how goddamn annoying it is for the staff at the store because these people almost never buy anything and when they do it's fucking piddling shit compared to what could have been sold by the people who get annoyed by them and simply give up and leave rather than try to get them move through the power of subtle social interaction. It fails each time! Why? Because they have NO SOCIAL SKILLS and they can't read social cues like the rest of the population can and even if they can and know that you want them to move they don't fucking care! They're nerd assholes!
Hahaha. Dude. I sound so pissed off. I'm not though. I can rant like this without being really angry. But whatever. They didn't buy anything while I bought seven shiny new manga and used my personal shopping day and got 10% off my total purchase. Which also included Michi's new Self Help book Taming Your Inner Brat: A Guide For Transforming Self-Defeating Behavior. I know, dude. I love my girlfriend too. And no, you cannot fucking have her. She's all mine. lol. But I will let you have this super awesome angry but funny song by one of my favorite ska bands of all time! Listen away!
Angry Anthem by The Forces of Evil:
http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=4A963154274AA38A
I have been super busy with working my two full time jobs but I somehow managed to get Saturday off which means I'll be sleeping in and finally starting work on Part 4 of All The White Horses. No! I haven't forgotten about Danish or my love of that ship and my more important love of Alice and writing fanfiction focused on her. I just hope I'll be able to start more extensive work on Alice's Chart sometime soon. Random link plug!
http://www.aliceschart.net/
Bwahaha. I love pimping my nerdy shit. It's fun.
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They can ignore social cues, but they cannot ignore the Aura of Hate.
Most of my customers were perfectly cool normal people, I have to add. But some deserved the Aura.
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Thank god my baby brother is home because none of my local friends nor Michi will go see X3 with me. Sometimes I hate the fact I don't really have local comic book or anime friends here. Sucks.