California Libraries in San Luis Obispo County have had rules banning offensive body odor since 1994, but the policy became law last month. The Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance that lets authorities kick out malodorous guests.
When I worked at a bookstore, many, many years ago, an ordinance like this would have been like sunshine after a month of smelly rain.
While I put out new magazines a man farted for, and I am not exaggerating, two minutes. He created his very own hole in the ozone.
Another man repeatedly picked up books, picked his nose, wiped his findings on the pages and put the books back on the shelf. Usually in the cooking section. Odd.
Oft times I would find teenage boys in the Sci Fi/Fantasy section with Playboy scrunched between the pages of Game Player Magazine or Car and Driver.
Children constantly threw up on the floor or tossed cereal about in a bored attempt at garnering attention.
And Fundamentalist Christians spent hours leaving leaflets in the pages of occult books.
I'll never forget the bomb threat we received for carrying erotica.
Ah, those weren't the days.
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And who said working in a book shop was boring?
I remember going shopping with my friend and his mother, when I was a kid.
His family were never that hard up, but his mother would go to charity shops and look through old clothes.
Odd...
Anyway, his mother found this long coat. She pulled it to one side on the rack and opened the side of the coat out and there was this unbelievable stench of urine.
The inside of the coat was just wet through, from hem line to sleeve hole. Someone must have really needed to go.
Sadly, it was a pretty dank, warm smell, so it was recent.
Not good...
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