I'm kind of with Jessica on used book stores. There was a store in Chapel Hill, NC, called The Bookshop where you never knew what you'd find -- in a good way. Sadly, they closed some years ago.
Yeah, all the good ones in Seattle have closed. There's supposed to be one near Olympia that specializes in SF/Fantasy/Horror/Vintage Romance, which means I need to do some research and convince Pete he wants to do a road trip.
My grandparents closed their bookstore when it my grandmother's health started to deteriorate and they had to move into assisted living housing. (The bookstore was in the barn attached to their house, and to get from one to the other you had to either walk down the icy narrow steps outside or the rickety narrow steps inside. After the third time Nana fell, her kids staged an intervention.)
Most of the inventory went to another store a couple of towns over, and my grandfather is still involved in managing those sales, but I'll always miss the family tradition of going into the barn to "shop" for our own Christmas presents.
We have a local group that takes books, DVDs and CDs as contributions, sells them cheaply and uses the money to fund literacy programs. I donate to them regularly ... and if you have enough books, they'll come and pick them up.
Someone just asked me if I'm available "next Saturday." I said, "do you mean this Saturday or the 23rd?" She said, next Saturday. So that means the 16th, right??
Someone just asked me if I'm available "next Saturday." I said, "do you mean this Saturday or the 23rd?" She said, next Saturday. So that means the 16th, right??
I hate questions like that. I always just verify the date.
Yeah, all the good ones in Seattle have closed. There's supposed to be one near Olympia that specializes in SF/Fantasy/Horror/Vintage Romance, which means I need to do some research and convince Pete he wants to do a road trip.
I know there was at least one that I hit in West Seattle when I was up there. I can ask my nieces what's still up there. I think it was...California St...that was the big main drag with thrift stores and used book stores and whatnot.
Someone just asked me if I'm available "next Saturday." I said, "do you mean this Saturday or the 23rd?" She said, next Saturday. So that means the 16th, right??
I would read that as the 23rd, but you're definitely right that it's unclear.
I hate questions like that. I always just verify the date.
I tried! But feel dumb asking again. Now I'm just going to see if she shows up on Saturday or not.
So that means the 16th, right??
I have no idea! Follow up with "day after tomorrow?"
The next vs this debate raged on unresolved for thirty years between Hubby and I.