Barnes & Noble Is Not Your Personal Hide-Away From The Jocks, Emo Kids

[HigherTomorrow]

Warning: Rant.

Why, why, why, and again, why, must people insist on sitting in the aisles at Barnes & Noble?

It's absolutely annoying trying to maneuver through the aisles and buy anything with kids strewn about everywhere. It'd be perfectly fine if it were one or two quiet offenders, but it's always seven or eight kids yelling.

Barnes & Noble is a store, not a library, and even if it were a library, you do not sit in the middle of aisles screaming about Ash Ketchum and condoms. How will I buy a new Deadpool comic with some gauge-earring wearing emo-kid sitting in front of it?

Of course, there's always the simple solution of being polite and asking them to move, but flamethrowers are simple as well.

Please tell me I'm not the only one annoyed by this. Please tell me there is someone out there who thinks that B&N is not the place for kids to hang out on a Friday night.

Or, if you're the kind of person who does this, why?

EDIT: There was some server disruption while posting this and the poll wasn't posted alongside it.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Never been in a B&N, but I can say I would hate it if it is as you make it out to be.

 

[UnmotivatedSlacker]

I agree it is annoying to have to maneuver through some kids trying to get the latest manga or whatever, but since they're usually polite enough to move when asked it's not that big of a deal to me.

 

[HigherTomorrow]

Never been in a B&N, but I can say I would hate it if it is as you make it out to be.

It's really not as bad as I make it out to be, it's just that the one aisle I always need to get into is always packed. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the Graphic Novels section at your local B&N.

 

[Necrotech]

Bookstores to tend to encourage (or at least ignore) people reading inside the store for a very simple reason, if people read half of something and like it, they tend to buy it. I've read entire graphic novels cover to cover inside a Barnes and Noble, didnt have anyone who worked there say so much as one word to me, and bought the book because I liked it (and have read it several times sense). However I had the common sense to sit down in a chair in the coffee shop section, so I guess I'm the middle ground. If someone is in the aisle for more then a minute or two they should really have the consideration to move to a better spot.

I do think however it is unfair to say that it's only emo kids. I've seen all walks of life stop me from reaching my Punisher comics...

 

[Giest4life]

Not been to B&N in a while. Mainly because since I had moved, the nearest location is a good 12 miles away. I know go to my local books-a-million for cannot-wait-releases. But the rest I order online.

 

[mindlesspuppet]

Barnes & Noble/Borders are great places to meet girls.

That being said...

Personally I find the old people in grocery stores who decide to stop in the middle of a damn isle to converse with an old friend, neighbor, etc way more annoying than hipsters at book stores.

 

[Boneasse]

Well, we don't have B&N's here in Denmark, but a similar problem pisses me off;

When you go shopping in a bigger shopping centre for groceries or whatever you need, there's always some family, or a group of friends etc, who walks side by side with their carts in front of them, hogging all the space.

Likewise there are people who just stop up when they meet someone they know, and proceed to talking in the MIDDLE OF THE GODDAMN AISLE! *Pants*, it pisses me off that people can't see that there're others out shopping.

Selfish bastards.

 

[UltraParanoia]

I spend all my time at either the car/gun mags or looking at manuals for the various shit I do for moneyand the annoying little bastards you're talking about generally stay away from em. Although I might make you mad, as I have intentionally taken a nap at a B&N to fuck with people.

 

[HigherTomorrow]

If someone is in the aisle for more then a minute or two they should really have the consideration to move to a better spot.

Now that's what bothers me the most, there are chairs, couches, benches, etc. all over my local B&N. There's an entire Starbucks inside the B&N! Why can't all the hipsters go there instead of commenting (because that's what the ones at my local B&N do. They comment on everyone that walks through the aisle as if they own it.) on my purchases?

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Thats why I love Chapters and Indigo up here in Canada. There are always enough custodians to tell people to haul their asses up. They don't mind people browsing, they just don't like them setting up nests and base camps.

 

[VivaciousDeimos]

Barnes & Noble/Borders are great places to meet girls.

That being said...

Personally I find the old people in grocery stores who decide to stop in the middle of a damn isle to converse with an old friend, neighbor, etc way more annoying than hipsters at book stores.

It's a shame I've never met any nice boys there...

And I think old people in grocery stores, hipsters in book stores, most people in walmart--they all sort of occupy the same circle of hell where irritating people are punished...perhaps the hipsters are forced to accompany old ladies through a walmart...*muses*

OT: I've definitely experienced this before, but not to the level you've described. Usually it's just one or two kids who'll move if I ask, but it is still annoying when they clutter up the aisles.

 

[Necrotech]

Now that's what bothers me the most, there are chairs, couches, benches, etc. all over my local B&N. There's an entire Starbucks inside the B&N! Why can't all the hipsters go there instead of commenting (because that's what the ones at my local B&N do. They comment on everyone that walks through the aisle as if they own it.) on my purchases?

Granted, if they're sitting there making snarky comments on everyone and everything that passes by I'd find that irritating too. I was focusing more on people that turn themselves into organic roadblocks then being what amounts to stuck up. I am convinced that Starbucks has that effect on people, but I have no scientific data to back it up yet.

Overall the problem comes from everyone that has been bullied feeling the need to bully others to feel better about themselves. If they are just endlessly mocking everyone that walks by them at all times there really isnt anything you'll ever be able to do to get them to act like reasonable adults, they'll just have to grow out of it. Some never will.

 

[Jarcin]

My basic solution is not saying anything and "accidentally" hitting them upside the head with a book conveniently placed behind their head, even if I don't want it. It's a nice way of saying "Better move, or I might find another behind you".

Most Barnes and Noble's have Starbucks...with seats...why not read there...damn it...

 

[HTID Raver]

hate when people clog up the isles in bookstores, they usualy have chairs or something for you to go read elsewhere in the store!

 

[nin_ninja]

Thats why I love Chapters and Indigo up here in Canada. There are always enough custodians to tell people to haul their asses up. They don't mind people browsing, they just don't like them setting up nests and base camps.

Also if you live in a poorer area like me, there are so few people who read that the store is almost empty.

I have some friends like the people who described, and while I like them I hate being in public with them because I always feel like an ass, even if I did nothing.

 

[GodotIsWaiting4U]

I pretty much ignore the hell out of the graphic novel section of B&N. Or I WOULD, except for some reason they insist on putting tabletop RPG materials and D&D stuff RIGHT FUCKING NEXT TO IT, so I DO have to deal with these kids sitting in the goddamn aisle.

Still, I don't make a big deal out of it. I used to do it myself a bit when I was young and stupid.

B&N staff in my local B&N have started walking down the aisles regularly and telling everyone to not sit in the aisle, so the problem's getting better.

 

[The87Italians]

If I'm sitting in the aisle, it's just to read the first chapter or so of a book to decide whether I want to buy it or not. I don't technically "loiter" there, I'm never sitting there any more then 10 minutes. Any longer and I usually go find one of those lounge chairs they have everywhere.

 

[mindlesspuppet]

Barnes & Noble/Borders are great places to meet girls.

That being said...

Personally I find the old people in grocery stores who decide to stop in the middle of a damn isle to converse with an old friend, neighbor, etc way more annoying than hipsters at book stores.

It's a shame I've never met any nice boys there...

And I think old people in grocery stores, hipsters in book stores, most people in walmart--they all sort of occupy the same circle of hell where irritating people are punished...perhaps the hipsters are forced to accompany old ladies through a walmart...*muses*

OT: I've definitely experienced this before, but not to the level you've described. Usually it's just one or two kids who'll move if I ask, but it is still annoying when they clutter up the aisles.

Hmm... I haven't really had any bad Walmart experiences, well not in this sense at least. In the Walmart I go to if you stop for more than 10 seconds to look at a shelf you're liable to get ran over by a lady and her family of seven kids. Which is a different kind of hell all together, but at least people are moving.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

That's what the internet's for, son. Order your books online and never have to deal with the dickheads.