Befuddlement

[Stygian von Belfry]

I am sure that anyone who works in retail (booksellers) have their 
share of tales for the HP-V release BUT, this one certainly puts 
shame to the cliche of taking the cake. Ergo: I was at the main 
information desk of the store where I work when a woman approached me 
to inquire about the procedures of picking up a previously reserved 
copy of HP-V. In furthering her explanation she intimated that she 
was picking the book up for a friend. The bizarre aspect of this and 
most disturbing, (allowing me to believe that ALL HP fans are insane 
and have no grasp on reality OR sense of priority), the phone call 
asking her to pick up the book came from a gentleman who was at a 
funeral parlour for his mother's funeral! I shant suspect that 
ANYTHING will ever be so important again as the death of one's own 
mother, but obviously, HP seems to be so much more important. This, 
to me, strikes at the absurd nature of this 'so-called' phenomena.