I totally get Borders and B&N confused all the damn time. They are huge bookstores with cafes and ... that's all I need to know. And I even have a Borders membership card thingie.
Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.
Angel ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Consuela - Jan 07, 2011 10:05:29 am PST #15383 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Vortex - Jan 07, 2011 10:08:57 am PST #15384 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
When I worked at B&N, we had so many people trying to give me Borders coupons or writing out their checks (yes, people are still writing out checks at stores!) to Borders. When I gave them their coupons back, they'd do a little look around the store and say, "You mean, I'm not in Borders?"
I've done that. It's their own fault by having the same first letter!
Lee - Jan 07, 2011 10:09:34 am PST #15385 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I have that problem with Petco and Petsmart all the time.
Kathy A - Jan 07, 2011 10:11:11 am PST #15386 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Borders is closing their MagMile flagship store here in Chicago; now, there's no bookstore on Michigan Avenue north of the river up to the Drake. Too bad--that was a nice store. ChiKat, my friend Tami, and I all went there for an Alton Brown booksigning several years back.
Gudanov - Jan 07, 2011 10:13:39 am PST #15387 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
The Borders we go to the most closed not too long ago. Though, there's another Borders not very far away so it doesn't seem unreasonable.
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2011 10:16:50 am PST #15388 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Borders second nearest me is closing. It would be sad except...not really at all. The one nearest me is open, and I shop at B&N anyway. I can totally tell them apart, even if it is only for reasons I make up in my head.
B&N does not spam me. I like them better.
Keeping a timesheet at work is going to kill me. KILL ME.
My head is also going to kill me.
brenda m - Jan 07, 2011 10:18:57 am PST #15389 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
the Kennedy is 53 minutes from O'Hare to the Hubbard tunnel
It's the "Hubbard Cave," not the "Hubbard Tunnel"--bad Chicagoan!
I don't think I've ever even heard of that. Assuming it's referencing the same spot, it's now just "the junction".
Borders is closing their MagMile flagship store here in Chicago; now, there's no bookstore on Michigan Avenue north of the river up to the Drake.
Damn. I hope they're not closing the State Street one too.
The only reason I know those stores apart is that Borders lets you do your own computer searches while B&N makes you actually search out and talk to a human. I have no idea whatsoever which stores PetCo and PetSmart and or which one i have a membership card to. None.
Consuela - Jan 07, 2011 10:19:03 am PST #15390 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Keeping a timesheet at work is going to kill me. KILL ME.
One of the best things about this job when I took it (in addition to the every-other-Friday-off) was that I no longer have to keep a timesheet. SUCH A RELIEF.
sumi - Jan 07, 2011 10:20:07 am PST #15391 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I don't recall the Hubbard being called the Hubbard Cave, either. The junction sounds much more familiar.
WindSparrow - Jan 07, 2011 10:20:16 am PST #15392 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
No, I can totally have done that. I tried to present Basha`s with my Safeway club card once. Oops?
I have done that a time or three myself. But you saying that, reminds me of the time I was in Nelson's (local family-owned grocery chain in Minnesota, a bit smaller than Basha's but similar in a lot of ways) and found a Basha's store brand something or other mixed in with the Nelson's brand items. I had to buy it for nostalgia's sake. It may have been pie crust, but I don't remember clearly.