Have you been to the bookstore lately?

Seems like an odd question to ask. My best guy friend Matt Looney once told me years ago that the best place to take someone for a first date is the bookstore. Unlike a movie, you get a chance to discuss many things. You can't help but expand on so many different avenues. There's at least one topic that interest most people and if you are not human there's at least one topic that you can't stand and can bitch about. Either way, your conversing and engaging in conversation. He said this is a great way to find likes and dislikes about a person. Also, if they don't like reading (in his book-pardon the pun) they are not smart and not worth Emily's time.

I absolutely love reading. I wish someone would pay me to read. I work across from the mall so often times I find myself in the Barnes and Nobles just walking around and browsing the latest and greatest in new novels. I never buy anything because my cheap ass can't stand the thought of paying upwards of $20.00 for a paperback book that will be read in 2 or 3 days. I make a list of the books I'd like to read and go to the FREE public library. Anywho, my newly single self was waltzing in there just this week and thought of Matt and our conversation many moons ago. I started thinking and thought wouldn't this be a perfect place to meet someone? Hello, they would like to read. You wouldn't need to drag them into the bookstore. They would already be there and willing. I look around and see several college looking boys with backpacks sitting in chairs going through textbooks. They looked about 19...maybe :/ No dice there! Then there were the two unattractive men sitting at the adjacent starbucks counter with headphones on repeating something they were listening too in some language that I had no clue. The emo guy that's tightness on the pants put mine to shame. The 50 year old overweight lawyer type. The mid 30's dad with a young son. Looking around there is absolutely no prospect at all. Not too sound conceited but where are all the smart hot guys at? You know where there at. There down in Victoria Secret and probably on a first date. Who can't find a conversation starter in that store? Just sayin'