An Annoyance...

[Protocol_Nova]

From the people I have talked to online...most people like to go and read the Manga there. It would be like going to Walmart and being able to play an entire CD. Listen to it, and leave.

Definately agree with that analogy. There is a reason to differentiate "book store" and "library" as the latter would be the proper place to sit down and read for as much time as you need to. At a book store, it's perfectly fine to just sample the book for a few minutes and decide then if you're going to buy it. Some people in my experience just go there, read the whole thing, and not buy the manga. It just makes it worse when they take up that tight space for customers that actually use the store for what it's for.

Of course, this is where I shop. It hasn't gotten to the point where I will only buy manga online as to systematically avoid Borders\Waldenbooks for that reason.

[Spirit_Wolf8356]

I usually sit in Waldens and read the entire manga (although I do try to stay out of peoples' way) When I have money, I come back and buy it anyway, because I don't really read anything that I don't need as a next in the series thing or know that I absolutely must have it thing.

[Lochaber Axe]

Unfortunately when I go to the manga section... it ends up empty afterwards. The only time I stop is to read the back. I have a strange affliction that makes me buy boatloads of books and manga *stares horrified at books stacked around room* and yet almost never re-read them. I'm perfectly happy to buy, read once, and then stick on a shelf. Same with everything I buy i guess... except for cd's and this laptop.

Luckily, I don't buy clothes like this. Just entertainment stuff...

I guess I am what they call an impulsive shopper.

[Mangafanatic]

One of the book stores where I peruse/read manga that I'm considering buying has staff that sometimes give her hostile glances, but until the day they just out right tell me to never read manga in there again-- I'll keep doing it. And if they do tell me to stop, they're idiots. I mean, what are they going to say? "I know you've probably spent $300 in here, but you really need to just leave now. No standing and flipping through things."

[Myoti]

I usually just flip through and look at stuff that looks interesting. Still, there's something about actually buying and collecting them that feels so gewd. ^-^

[mitsuki lover]

Ok I admit to sitting down in aisles,but that's when I'm working in the
library and have to straigthen the shelves.

Actually I am a bit shy so I steer clear when anyone else is at the manga or
Sci Fi sections.

[Kaligraphic]

Aisle-blocking can be kind of fun - seriously, if you have enough people you can arrange yourselves so that you trap unsuspecting shoppers in various areas. They can't get out, so they go from aisle to aisle wondering what's going on. Try it and you'll see.

*note: Kaligraphic neither engages in nor endorses the trapping of bookstore customers, except under a strict catch-and-release policy*


(No, I don't actually do this.)

Oh, and:

ChristianRonin: Hey, check this one out.
CR's mother: Why is it wrapped? It's not something perverted, is it?
ChristianRonin: Chi-chigau yo!
CR's mother: (in a fit of violence) Hentai! Hentai! Hentai!
ChristianRonin: CHIGAU!
*a manga goes flying, and you see that the title is... Fruits Basket.*

[Hoshika]

Well, I usually stand back and search the shelf for the title I want... Still if some one is in my way/ blocking my view I don't have a problem with telling to to move their narrow/fat/stinky butts out of the way.
Okay, I never say that or really think it unless they act like they didn't hear me the first time. A simple "excuse me" usually works if they aren't polite enough to get out of the way when they notice some one obviously trying to get to the shelf. People are usually polite about those kinds of things though, saying excuse me when walking infront of people and such to get down an ailse.

Anyway, it does annoy me to see people reading books in the stores- not sampling, but sitting down in a chair or on the floor and reading them. I saw this girl the other day doing that in the manga ailse and she also had the nerve to sit her drink on the shelf. If I said anything to her I would have utterly blew up at her... she has a mother and father for that so I kept my mouth shut and let her mind her business. I was just thinking to myself this is one of the many reasons I buy my junk online.

[Stephen]

Aisle-blocking can be kind of fun - seriously, if you have enough people you can arrange yourselves so that you trap unsuspecting shoppers in various areas. They can't get out, so they go from aisle to aisle wondering what's going on. Try it and you'll see.

I find *accidently* stepping on one of those peoples hands or ankles is a good way to break the line.

[bigsleepj]

What manga section?

[Locke]

Ive been kicked out of stores for reading manga for a few hours...
But I bought some nerdy action figure for a buck so they didnt press charges >.>

[Myoti]

I only seem to have this happen at the game strategy guide section, and I usually don't go there anymore, since they always seem to have the same guides there (they still have FFVII guides.)

[Fsiphskilm]

I just

[Locke]

I just LOVE how people talking on their cell phones walk through walmart like they own the place.

OH EXCUSE ME.. I'm talking on my ->Cell Phone<- could you please get out of my way so that I can take up the whole Isle and walk really slow, and Talk OUT LOUD so everyone can hear my Stupid Conversation about Pads, Tampons, Tampon Pads, and other Femanine products.

Guh Welcome back!

[Myoti]

ROFL.

Going on a slight tangent here, but does anyone else here push a cart into an aisle, then get the urge to start running as quickly as possible and let go?

[Locke]

ROFL.

Going on a slight tangent here, but does anyone else here push a cart into an aisle, then get the urge to start running as quickly as possible and let go?

I do!
but i hang on and ride ^_________^

Oh the simple pleasures of youth...

[JoyfullShadow]

I usually stand in the isle untill i see someone coming, then i go look @ the anime or go read calvin and hobbes

[Icarus]

In answer to the original post, it hasn't happened to me so much as it's possible that I've done it to others.

Yes, I did just admit to reading in the store. I do try to buy my favorite series (Excel, Lament of the Lamb, and JIng), but there are some things that my mother would have a fit if she caught my siblings reading. I.e. GTO and Tramps Like Us.

Anyway, I usually read standing up if anyone is around.