My Trip To The Bookstore

Remember the other day when I said sometimes I leave my apartment and stuff happens…today was one of those days.

I headed out this morning to go to Barnes & Noble to pick up a few magazines and a book, something that took me an unnecessarily long amount of time due to the fact that the B&N closest to me is apparently no longer open (on the bright side a Landmark theater is coming in its place). But the fact that I spent over 2 hours to buy some reading material is not really the point of this post. What is the point of this post is what happened once I did finally get to the open B&N (near the 3rd St. Promenade).

As I entered the store I noticed a particularly strange looking Asian (I think he was Korean) gentleman standing on the second floor. What caught my attention was the fact that he was stretching (like to warm up, not to reach something) in a bookstore. I got on the escalator headed up (on my way to the fiction section) just as he stepped onto the opposite one headed down. As he was coming towards me I noticed that he was slightly disheveled, he was wearing sweatpants and a long sleeve t-shirt and had relatively long hair (which in and of itself was not grounds for suspicion, but given the course of events that occurred afterwards I feel it deserves mention now).

So, anyway, I watched him as he passed by me and continued onto the ground floor. He stepped off the escalator, and took two steps forward before stopping. At that point he looked around in both directions and then removed his shirt. Next, he screamed at the top of his lungs, “WHOOOOOOOO!!!!!” before turning and taking off full speed out the front door.

I watched for a few seconds as he ran out of view (he was moving relatively fast), before continuing on to get what I came for, and then heading home.