She doesn’t drink, so I’m kind of at sea with what to suggest for a first date. We end up meeting at this gelato shop downtown. We hang out for a bit and chat. I ask if she wants to walk over to this book store. We walk over. We walk to the philosophy section (i’m looking for Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, have not been able to find it anywhere). She picks a random book in the philosophy section. Turns out its a book that has no business being there, a Brothers Grimm book. She opens it.
In the back of the book is $700 in cash.
We look around thinking, surely, we’re on camera and this is some kind of prank.
We took it. She buys the book for $6. Then we went to a concert together.
I still cannot fucking believe this just happened.
statistically you should continue the relationship
I think you might have accidentally found money that was intended for a drug deal or something
I hope nobody dies because of it
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Convince them that the money is cursed unless you use it to do praxis together. Getting free stuff without strings attached usually takes a turn for the worse in Grimm stories.
op and his date are gonna get their stomachs filled with stones and thrown in the river if they dont spend that money wisely
having a date and finding wads of cash some people just have it all
Even without the cash, that sounds like a very nice date.
The closest I’ve come to “700 in the back of a book” is coming across rare/collector’s copies of books in a bookstore that were underpriced in wholesale.
I once found a first print copy of 10 Days That Shook the World from 1919 for like $5 at a used book store. Priceless. Sadly, and I will regret this for the rest of my life, I loaned it to a friend and never saw it again.
yuo found The Money Store
“when you come out your shit is gone, I’m in your area”
Breaking Bad rebooted into a rom-com that starts with a meet-cute.
no more half kisses walter
Simulacra and Simulation was on my list after Deleuze’s ‘the fold’ but I never made it out of the rhizome
You’ll have to report back if you find it
reporting back: after visiting four different local bookstores and not being able to find it anywhere, i caved and just ordered it through the last store i visited. sadly i’m too tired from working doubles all week to even look at it right now.
but i was able to find murray bookchins post-scarcity anarchism for $2, so that was pretty neat.
Ohhhh, that sounds good, too!
