A thing or three.

1., and again, you are not children. The store has more than a kid's section full of books too young for you and a cat. really. Grow the fuck up!!! 2. What are you hearing? When I say where the particular history book is depends on what kind of history you are interested in does not entail you to respond "Non-Fiction" history. I mean that we have more than one history section and that it is downstairs for the most part. I have trained myself to point at the stairwell when I say "downstairs". This does not seem to help. Is every single person who walks in blind on their left side, unable to turn their heads and does not know what pointing a finger at something means? How do you even leave the bloody house if you can't see what is in front of you, or at least see what someone is pointing at? Do you fall down a lot and get hit by cars every time you cross an intersection? 3. I am from out east so maybe it is different here. The dig heavy thing made of concrete usually found on the sides of streets are what we call "side walks". A good example is the one I am (again)pointing at out the window when I am saying the words "side walk". I admit there are all sorts of calamities and events that might in fact move or wipe out several tons of concrete but it is also true that many, many sidewalks tend to stay put. Not moving at all. So the side walk side of the store is the side that has the non-moving sidewalk on it. As opposed to the side(s) that do not have sidewalks; invisible, moving or otherwise. Just like if I say ceiling, you should look up and if I say floor you should look down. Left and right are subjective. The giant freaking sidewalk you were walking on immediately before coming into the store is not. It is the "side walk side" of the room or store. No matter which way you turn or how may times you spin around it is not going to move nor is wall that abuts it. It is a fixed point, like north and in the immediate sense up or down. I suppose it is not a strict rule that the rooms of the store are not rotating on their axes. But I guess I am just being foolish in thinking that the building or internal chambers are static. 4.the "kids" did manage to make it downstairs.By themselves. At least they have that going for them. But alas there were no books here worth buying.

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  1. I like to think of it as a 'magic' staircase that only appears when the 'observer' (and I use this term loosely) is moving toward the sidewalk ... which I never thought of as 'magic' before, but I now understand it too seems to otherworldly qualities.
    FYI, Jesse and his friend John were in today and happened to comment on the sign I have by literature and fiction that explains that the stairs are by the door. I told them, and I think this is true, that they are the first people to read it.

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