Overheard at the Bookstore

This page features quotes from bookstores around the Sugar Land, TX area, namely the ones that I frequent. Of course, should any of my visitors be kind enough to submit, then perhaps we will become more distantly enlightened.

Overheard at Barnes and Noble or UH Bookstore

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  Overheard at Borders

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  Overheard at Half-Price Books

• "I don't do subtraction." --employee to her coworker, 7-5-01

• "Look, a pudding cup." --employee
• "Pudding Snack Pak." --another employee, 7-5-01

• "Get this out of my hair right now!" --employee, 7-5-01

  Overheard at Quarter-Price Books

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  Overheard at Rother's

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  Overheard at Waldenbooks

  (These will only be customer quotes. Employee quotes will be found either on Liners page or College Quotes page.)
• "No, c'mon, you hold it." --Girl to her friend
• "I let you bite me!" --Friend on why she won't hold the bag, 6-4-01

• "This is the bookstore. They don't have hash browns at the bookstore." --Father to young son, 6-16-01

• "They're like cards with calendars on them. They're supposed to be for girls...and weirdos." --girl explaining our calendar cards to her older brother, 11-8-01

• "You take it into Waldenbooks between November 10-18. Any regular-priced items you can fit in here, they'll give you 15% off." --Helen L.
• "Oh, groovy!" --a man who doesn't look old enough to be saying 'groovy,' 11-8-01

• "If you draw a line right through this big knot here, everything in this region is Big Bend National Park." --a man who got upset when I said the park was near El Paso
• "Honey, if we want to make it to Victoria's Secret in time, I've got to pay for this calendar!" --his annoyed wife
• "See, I-10 cuts through San Antonio and into El Paso, and Big Bend is right underneath that. It's right next to the border of Mexico." --while being dragged away by his wife, 11-17-01

• "Just get four." --Katie ?
• "Well, c'mon Katie, this is dinner!" --Katie's friend, 12-8-01 (They split six Lindt Lindor Truffles for dinner.)

• "Do I look like a dork, coming to the mall to buy a book?" --girl to her friends, 1-26-02 (No, but you sound like a dork by saying that.)

• "Well, he's still a child molester at heart..." --girl to her friend, 8-12-02

• "Hmm...I think you might need another bag." --Helen L.
• "No, it's okay. I've got a husband." --lady
• "That's not very nice." --lady's husband
• "Actually, I do need another bag." --lady, 8-31-02

• "Clifford gets on my nerves." --lady to her kids, 11-29-02 (Wow, there are people who don't like the big red dog?!)

• "Oh! Look, a "Cows" calendar!" --Girl 1
• "Like Cows on Parade?" --Girl 2
• "Wow!!" --Girl 1
• "Ohhh, it's so sexy!" --Girl 3, 12-13-02 (So...the cows are...what...?)

• "Do you have six cents, by any chance?" --Helen L.
• "What?" --girl and her friend
• "Six cents." --Helen L.
• "Sixth Sense? You mean, like the movie?" --girl
• "No, six cents. Like a nickel and a penny." --Helen L., 12-21-02

• "I don't even believe soccer is for women, okay?" --man buying a Mia Hamm calendar, 12-21-02

• "Did you find everything all right?" --Helen L.
• "No." --middle-aged man
• "No? Oh, no. What were you looking for?" --Helen L.
• "A girlfriend." --middle-aged man
• "Oh, but we don't sell that here!" --Helen L.
• "Well, you should." --middle-aged man, 5-18-03

• "Stop laughing in my ear!" --girl to friend, 6-21-03

• "Can we get this, Dad?" --little boy in store
• "I don't think Mom would like it if you put those stickers all over the house." --boy's dad
• "We could put them on the basketball." --little boy
• "Hmm." --boy's dad
• "The thing is...I don't have a basketball..." --little boy, 3-7-04

• "I need Julius Caesar's farewell speech. Do you have that?" --girl in store
• "'Julius Caesar's farewell speech?'" --me, confused
• "Yeah. I don't remember who wrote it." --girl
• "Shakespeare!" --one of her friends
• "Ohhh, that's right. The one that's by Shakespeare." --girl, 4-25-04