8 days yet?
by Tommy
I’ve been trying to figure out how many days it is between today and the Saturday before last. More to the point, has it been over 8 days? I ordered a book from the local O’Mahony’s, and they said that it’d be here within 8 days. “Said” was never legally binding, I know, but it’s a damn fine book that I ordered, and I want to get it read. Amazon’s Look Inside! thing isn’t helping. I’ve read the first five pages – not helping my yearning.
Speaking of ordering books, actually. One day recently I went into the bookshop in Castletroy – not the O’Mahoney’s – to buy some other books. A Stephen King one, for reading late at night under the duvet with a torch, because that’s what you’re meant to do with King books – and also one that they didn’t have in stock, which I had to order. Props to Meteor’s EDGE and Wikipedia being the source of all knowledge, I was able to give her the ISBN number on the spot.
On Saturday, while chowing down on some chicken in the Zoo (wonder if it’s made from the petting zoo ones?) I get a call from the bookshop in Castletroy. Because my mouth was full, I was kind of short with them. I got past the part where they said Hi Tommy, it’s Gerald (or whatever his name was…) from the Castletroy Bookshop here – that book you ordered is in, so I told them yes, I’d collect it as soon as I could.
The problem is – I don’t know what book I ordered. I have a feeling it’s Eagle Day by Robert Muchamore, a book I started reading at my cousin’s house and forgot to ask to borrow it. I didn’t think I’d be seeing said cousins for a while, but desperately wanted to finish reading the book, so I can see myself ordering it in. The thing is that the cousinss in question came out the weekend after and once I got wind of that, I asked him to bring the book out with him when he was coming, which he did. The book now lies on the kitchen table, just about finished.
I don’t want to go in and have to go through that entire explanation, finishing with ‘…and this is why I don’t actually need to buy this, sorry’. It would also be rather suspicious to ring them. “Oh.. about that book, what was it called..?”, especially then if I never show up for it.
Anyone got a solution to my conundrum?
And no, the first book I mentioned definitely isn’t the one I can’t remember. I checked.