Magnum and I were in the local Barnes & Noble a couple of weeks ago. Meego needed a book for school, and I'd ordered it online, but it ended up being the wrong edition. Easy fix, just hit the local B&N down the road.
I couldn't find the book, so I bothered a store employee,
"I'm looking for 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus" , I said, pronouncing it "AL-bert CAM-us"
She began typing at her computer, and said, "AL-bert ka-MOO"
Oh, heh, that's what I said, right? I guess my non-culture was showing. I later learned that his name is actually pronounced "al-BEAR ka-MOO", so who's the uncultured one now??
Another example of why shopping online is easier - no one to check your incorrect pronunciation.
I mention this because the prompt at Illustration Friday for this week is "shopping", and I was going to draw some money, but I got busy with unshopping and didn't draw a darn thing. So I'm cheating and going with a throwback drawing. Stupid because I only go to Illustration Friday to inspire me to draw something, not pull something out of the archives!
But like I said, I was unshopping, meaning I was tidying and then took a load o' stuff to the donation center.
I loves me some tidying and unshopping. Plus, I know how to correctly pronounce "Albert Camus".
Progress.
4 comments:
I rarely use cash nowadays, it's all a bit weird, I buy everything using my credit card. And today I realised as I was writing some Christmas cards, that I rarely write using a pen anymore. Scary.
Cash is a rare thing nowadays. Someone paying with cash is immediately suspected of being a drug dealer!
I’m surprised the bookstore employee knew how to pronounce his name.
You nailed my thoughts exactly on cash payers. Cash paying guests never turn out well....
I remember joking with a cash-paying guy at a hotel I worked at. Said cash payers were usually drug dealers or strippers and he didn't look like a drug dealer. He turned several shades of red. I guess he wasn't a stripper?
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