Ben Stein How Not to Ruin Your Life
Want to Survive the Recession? Work It Out
by Ben Stein
Posted on Friday, April 11, 2008, 12:00AM
Now for a few words that may give you some guidance on life as it is.
Last week, my pal Mike Long and I had dinner at a Thai place in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Then we walked one long, steep block to Barnes & Noble so I could buy a few photo books of D.C. to send to my friends in California.
The store was almost empty, possibly because of a powerful rain that was falling. I found several lovely books and brought them to the sales counter, where two young salesclerks, a man and a woman, were lounging. I told them I wanted to buy the books and have them mailed or otherwise sent to three addresses in California.
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The young clerks looked worried. “We don’t know how to do that,” one of them said.
“You don’t ever send books?” I asked.
“Hey, we’re students at George Washington University,” the young woman said. “We don’t know how to do much.”
“But surely other customers have wanted to send books,” I said.
They shrugged.
“Can you call over a manager?” I asked.
“Yes,” the young woman said eagerly. “Yes.” Soon, a pretty young woman with short hair appeared.
To make a long story short, she was indeed the manager, but she didn’t know how to send the books, either. In fact, even after I’d carefully spelled out all of the addresses, they couldn’t figure out how to send anything.
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