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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I used to be a book buyer at a used book store. We’d get people bringing in garbage bags and boxes full of old paperbacks that had been stored in their cat-piss homes for decades. The stench would hit you the moment they walked in the door - the whole store would reek within seconds.
They’d always get baffled and angry when I said I couldn’t take the books, and they’d have to remove them immediately. Presumably they’d been living with the stench for so long that they didn’t even notice it. Their homes must have been awful.
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This sounds like a cool job! Is it as cool as it sounds? I imagine you were purchasing original copies of collected works of Bill Shakespeare and what not. Or was it more buying the Double Digest of "Archie and Jughead".