I saw some dude pitching a tent while sleeping in Borders tonight.

[LostInAnomie]

There was nothing left to the imagination under the thin veil of that guy's sweatpants.

I tried to get a picture, but I was laughing too damn hard.

[arcadian]

1. curious

[texanwitch]

2. Damn.

Our big was the tent.

[LostInAnomie]

5. His pants weren't straining or anything...

... but it was obvious to everyone around.

[texanwitch]

7. Well, he was having a happy dream.

:puffpiece:

[texanwitch]

3. Damn.

Our big was the tent.

[Kutjara]

4. Why do people think they can live there?

It's a bookstore, not a hostel for the feckless. The Borders coffee shop is home to people who look as if they're staging a sit-in, while every aisle is full of human detritus sitting on the floor, surrounded by manga and Jackie Collins novels (not the same people, of course. Except for my friend Sid, but he's special). Half of the look as if they're dressed for bed. This is not your fucking home, people! You're in public! Buy a book and fuck off!

[LostInAnomie]

6. Indeed.

I see mofos sleeping in there all the damn time.

[Kutjara]

10. I don't even mind the sleeping, as long as the...

...assholes don't snore. It makes the job of robbing them easier. No, what really gets me are the people who roll in there with their toddlers, turn the kids loose, and then set up home in the coffee shop, where they spend the rest of the day yakking on their cell phones. That it pretty much the only category of person for whom I'd be prepared to support the death penalty.

[Forkboy]

8. "Buy a book and fuck off!"

That should be their motto. :)

[CreekDog]

24. well he was halfway there

:shrug:

[redqueen]

25. Hahaha... yup.

:)

[AlCzervik]

9. What you said.

:thumbsup:

Next time i go to Border's i'm going to try that out.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

11. there are some real weirdos at the one in South Coast Plaza

When I first saw this topic I actually imagined a homeless guy putting up an actual tent in the store under the stairs, since I doubt anyone would stop them. There is a weird guy who is ALWAYS at the Borders in South Coast Plaza who wears these purple leapord skin pants whilst muttering to himself about various subjects while hiding behind a newspaper.

[Kutjara]

13. SOUTH COAST PLAZA! YES!

I go to the one near me in Brea most often, but SCP is the other one I visit a lot. I've seen that guy! Sometimes, he thinks he works in the music section, because he'll come up to you and recommend CDs. His recommendations are pretty good, too.

But that is definitely one of the places where people have clearly mistaken the bookstore for their home. They sit around, surrounded by the debris of their lives, as if they're the only people in the place.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

18. That guy has been there forever

The first time I noticed him was in January or February 2003, it is kind of an expensive area to be a bum, yet no matter what time of the day I go to that store he is there.'

There also used to be a strange old guy who would hangout around the computer books offering unsolicited and uninteligible Linux tips, but I haven't seen him in years.

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

12. I can't believe nobody's asked the obvious question

What was he reading? :think:

[LostInAnomie]

14. Apparently nothing.

I wish I had a good story where he was looking at some erotica, or even a Hustler, but he was just leaning back in a chair with his Cardinals hat, gray sweatpants, and a boner.

[Kutjara]

15. Cardinals hat...sweatpants...and a boner.

Stop. You're turning me on. :puke:

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

16. He was a Cardinals fan?

Sure it wasn't our old friend Hugh Moran??

[Pierre.Suave]

17. FYI

that is a completely normal thing for a male to do while asleep. If you had fallen asleep in Borders, you would have done the same thing, and someone would have come on to DU to make a thread about it, and we all would have laughed at you.

Last time I looked, I think the research was that on average, a man will "pitch a tent" 3 times a night.

[redqueen]

23. *sigh*

not your post...

the three wasted boners every night...

[CreekDog]

26. i don't want anyone sleeping *that* well at Borders

:crazy:

[Pierre.Suave]

28. Agreed

science and nature aside, it is still gross and I do not want to see it at Borders.

[ghostsofgiants]

29. Yeah, people need to avoid sleeping and wearing sweat pants in public.

Especially at the same time. F'real.

[Pierre.Suave]

30. How about we ban Sweat Pants in Public as a general rule?

Nothing good about them anyway.

[ghostsofgiants]

32. I can get behind that.

[Pierre.Suave]

33. And a Double Penalty

if there is anything written on the backside of them...


There should be a fine for that.

[ghostsofgiants]

34. Word.

:thumbsup:

[TK421]

19. Imagine what life must be like for a Borders employee...must go something like this:

Employee: "Excuse me, sir...but we're getting ready to close soon. Could you take your, ummmm...package, and leave"?

Evil Employee ( me, if I worked at Borders ) " Sir, I know that you find our selection quite arousing, but you are disturbing some of the other patrons in a manner that I can't mention at the moment...just, well, would you look down at your sweatpants for a moment and see how pathetic you look? The college girls down in the T.S Elliot section were giggling so loudly that other readers had to leave the store".

I don't think he would stay very long after that one, except if he was that neighbor of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force

[CreekDog]

27. excuse me sir, could you leave

...in about 10 minutes?

[MilesColtrane]

20. The inadvertent erection fairy strikes again.

[NJmaverick]

21. Why were you sleeping in borders?

that's one crazy dream

[JVS]

22. LOL!

Borders should kick people out if they're sleeping!

[bigwillq]

31. hee hee

That's funny. It happens. They have a mind of their own sometimes! :evilgrin:

[Blue_Tires]

35. BISP?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJRDzs5GO2Y