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Do I want it gift wrapped?

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SolHeiM
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden1264 Posts
August 21 2010 21:47 GMT
#1
"Do you want it gift wrapped?" she asked, thinking that a twenty something year-old male couldn't possibly read Nora Roberts. I mean the cover is a of woman in a wedding dress. No, clearly a gift.

"No," I reply and smile as I rummage through my pockets to pay for the book.

"Oh," she says. "Well, do you want a bag?" I nod and hand her the money.

She hands over my change and the bag with Nora Roberts's "Vision in White," with the woman in the wedding dress on the cover. I walk out of the store with a beaming smile, amused by the cashier's ignorance.

---------------------------------

I had ordered Nora Roberts's "Vision in White" two weeks ago and went to collect it today, because I love a sappy romance novel and Nora Roberts is a pretty good read, and I found it funny how the girl at the counter immediately asked if I wanted it gift wrapped, assuming that me being male, I wouldn't be reading "such drivel" as my father would say.

She was pretty hot, and I was going to say that I'm actually going to read it myself, but it's not like she would rip my clothes off and blow me right there in the bookstore because I happen to read romance novels. Though the thought of opening a gift when I come home regardless of me having bought it was quite inviting. I didn't want to have to clean up the wrapping paper though, as I tend to ravage open my gifts at Christmas or on my birthdays.

Probably she assumed it was a gift for a girlfriend or another female family member. However, I don't think I could ever give a novel away unless I actually knew it was good (obviously I would never subject anyone to the atrocity that is "Twilight", or if I bought a copy for myself to read as well and if it turned out to be shit, I'd return the other copy and buy something better.

It doesn't really feel right to give someone a used gift.

****
k20a
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada412 Posts
August 21 2010 21:53 GMT
#2
On August 22 2010 06:47 SolHeiM wrote:
(obviously I would never subject anyone to the atrocity that is "Twilight")

Please..... tell this to my gf.
"It's like that one time Luke Skywalker threw the ring in to Mordor to kill Hitler, or something" - Tasteless
SolHeiM
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden1264 Posts
August 21 2010 21:54 GMT
#3
On August 22 2010 06:53 k20a wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2010 06:47 SolHeiM wrote:
(obviously I would never subject anyone to the atrocity that is "Twilight")

Please..... tell this to my gf.


Tell her to watch this.

WarChimp
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia943 Posts
August 21 2010 21:55 GMT
#4
Tell that to most girls -.- Twilight, such a shit novel/movie
BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10451 Posts
August 21 2010 21:59 GMT
#5
Very creative way of coming out. 5/5
SolHeiM
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden1264 Posts
August 21 2010 22:07 GMT
#6
On August 22 2010 06:59 BlackJack wrote:
Very creative way of coming out. 5/5


Yeah, if only!
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9756 Posts
August 21 2010 22:28 GMT
#7
i'm sure there are people who are silently relating to you. i'm just not one of them >.>
boomer hands
k20a
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada412 Posts
August 21 2010 22:30 GMT
#8
On August 22 2010 06:54 SolHeiM wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2010 06:53 k20a wrote:
On August 22 2010 06:47 SolHeiM wrote:
(obviously I would never subject anyone to the atrocity that is "Twilight")

Please..... tell this to my gf.


Tell her to watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L253VLwH3w


This guy is amazing... I'm watching all the chapters
"It's like that one time Luke Skywalker threw the ring in to Mordor to kill Hitler, or something" - Tasteless
The_Pacifist
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States540 Posts
August 21 2010 22:32 GMT
#9
Don't feel bad. It could have been worse.

You: I'd like to purchase this box of condoms, please.
Cashier: Would you like it gift wrapped?
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
August 21 2010 22:41 GMT
#10
On August 22 2010 07:32 The_Pacifist wrote:
Don't feel bad. It could have been worse.

You: I'd like to purchase this box of condoms, please.
Cashier: Would you like it gift wrapped?


lol

Btw I read Twilight and it was fine....Its not an amazing novel but it's not the butchery of the English language that the masses seem to agree it is.

Its pretty much just like all those other fantasy novels written for a teenage audience...
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
rockon1215
Profile Joined May 2009
United States612 Posts
August 21 2010 23:48 GMT
#11
On August 22 2010 06:59 BlackJack wrote:
Very creative way of coming out. 5/5
^^
Flash v Jaedong The finals that is ALWAYS meant to be
Elegy
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States1629 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-21 23:56:34
August 21 2010 23:53 GMT
#12
The only experience that I have with romance novels are those cheapo paperbacks with hot women on the front being held by a buff man with a sunset behind them

then u open it up and its a textual sex scene with things like

she holds him tight and squeezes her body to his, sending delightful sailing boats tacking to and fro across the ocean of his back. With her fingertips she sends foam-flecked waves scurrying over his skin...


or

'Baby.' She took my head in both hands and guided it downward, between her fragrant thighs. 'Yoni puja - pray, pray at my portal.'
She was holding my head, murmuring 'Pray,' and I did so, beseeching her with my mouth and tongue, my licking a primitive form of language in a simple prayer. It had always worked before, a language she had taught me herself, the warm muffled tongue.


but respect to the man who goes for it, reading is better than no reading...

http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsexpassages.html for more!
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
August 21 2010 23:56 GMT
#13
On August 22 2010 08:53 Elegy wrote:
The only experience that I have with romance novels are those cheapo paperbacks with hot women on the front being held by a buff man with a sunset behind them

then u open it up and its a textual sex scene with things like

Show nested quote +
she holds him tight and squeezes her body to his, sending delightful sailing boats tacking to and fro across the ocean of his back. With her fingertips she sends foam-flecked waves scurrying over his skin...


or

Show nested quote +
'Baby.' She took my head in both hands and guided it downward, between her fragrant thighs. 'Yoni puja - pray, pray at my portal.'
She was holding my head, murmuring 'Pray,' and I did so, beseeching her with my mouth and tongue, my licking a primitive form of language in a simple prayer. It had always worked before, a language she had taught me herself, the warm muffled tongue.


but respect to the man who goes for it, reading is better than no reading...


hawt
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
ella_guru
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada1741 Posts
August 22 2010 00:15 GMT
#14
Really you should ALWAYS give your books away after reading. This is best! It can be anyone. As soon as you finish reading it, just hand it off. I've done this is food courts or other places like that. Just find someone sitting alone or old and it works out.

Ahh, novel is the greatest gift : ( don't hoard them on a shelf please!!
Each day gets better : )
SolHeiM
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden1264 Posts
August 22 2010 10:49 GMT
#15
On August 22 2010 09:15 ella_guru wrote:
Really you should ALWAYS give your books away after reading. This is best! It can be anyone. As soon as you finish reading it, just hand it off. I've done this is food courts or other places like that. Just find someone sitting alone or old and it works out.

Ahh, novel is the greatest gift : ( don't hoard them on a shelf please!!


I see what you mean. But giving someone a used gift for their birthday or w/e seems rather inappropriate in my opinion.
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