The Astonishing Elf Girl's Tales from the Comic Shop (of Horror!)
Today I will regale you with tales of the dark and mysterious comic shop; strange tales to chill your bones, scare little kids and...
Ah, frak it. On with the stories.
Tale #9 ~ The Truthsayer Strikes Back
It's so incredibly irritating how often people in the store (female and male), will ask me questions, get an answer, then later ask Bill or Jake the same question and get the same answer. It's annoying, though sometimes amusing. In this case it was amusing because if the guy had just listened to me, he would have saved $6.
It was near the end of the day, and I was doing inventory. Which of late isn't anything new. Inventory in this context, is defined as a level of retail hell that lasts forever. This man walks in and kind of looks around a bit. He's kind of a jittery personality, like he's had too much coffee or a cola or something. He comes to the desk and asks if the Wizard we have out is the latest. I tell him it is. He asks for an opened copy. Lucky for him, we actually had one.
More after the jump!
He flips through it for a few minutes, then asks if we have any more back issues. I tell him we have last month's, but no open copy for it.
"Do you have the Indy edition?"
"You mean one Wizard puts out devoted to Indy press?"
"Yeah."
"No, they haven't released one yet. Or in awhile for that matter."
"Oh...do you know when?"
"No, not reliably."
"Thanks."
He walks away for a bit and Bill comes up. The man walks back with last month's Wizard.
"Can I open this, I'll buy it."
Bill looks at him funny, but says "Uh...ok, sure."
As he opens it, he starts asking Bill the exact same questions he just asked me. Bill gives him the same answers I did, and of course, the last issue of Wizard yielded no results for him. Which meant he had to shell out $6 for an issue that he didn't really want for an answer I gave him ahead of time. I so wanted to say "See, 'the girl' does know what she's talking about. If you listened to me, you would have saved money!"
Tale #10 ~ The Obsession
One family came into the store, two young kids, one girl one boy, and the two parents. The guy grabs his comics while his family wanders around looking at the other items. The little girl is absolutely obsessed with Superman. She runs around the store trying to find anything we have that has Superman, then pointing and saying "Soopaman!" loudly. While her dad was buying his stash, I asked "I take it she likes Superman?"
"Oh, she's obsessed."
I ask him if they were there for Free Comic Book Day, and he said they weren't. I bent down to get one of the free Superman and the Legion comics and heard the little girl saying she wanted something related to Superman. Bill had to get more Legion from the back, and the dad said "We might have something for you, if you'll just wait a few moments" to the little girl. She became interested and walked over to the counter as Bill gave her an issue. She eagerly grabbed it and was totally thrilled to get something that had "Soopaman". The little boy didn't seem interested in anything there, or if he was, he didn't express it. Still, it was cool that not only did the little girl have an interest in a comic character, but her parents were very willing to foster that. Fortunately, that's more the norm than the exception where I work.
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Posted to Hot Stuff on 10 September 2008
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