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08/23/11 09:51

Went to Barnes & Noble on Federal Highway yesterday to look for a guide to Prague. First I browsed the magazine racks, and then I took the escalator upstairs to the travel (i.e. guidebook) section.

There were only the usual suspects: Frommer, Fodor, Rick Steves, Lonely Planet (I was looking for Time Out). Putting my hand in my pocket I discovered that my sunglasses were no longer hanging there.

I went downstairs and asked at the Information desk if anyone had found a pair of sunglasses. "Were they big and clunky?" the young woman behind the desk asked.

"Yes," I said.

"I saw them on the floor over by the magazines."

I walked back to the magazine racks and did a tour: no sunglasses. I returned to the Information desk. "They're not there," I said. "You saw them and you didn't pick them up?"

"I had my hands full of magazines," the woman said. "And then my manager called me."

I thought of calling the manager, but what could he do? He couldn't bring my sunglasses back. The woman who'd seen them was not the least apologetic. It seemed astonishing to me that someone had found a pair of sunglasses on the floor - big, clunky sunglasses - and thought this meant that they could have them. A customer in a bookstore. Perhaps the recession is worse than we imagine.

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