Friday night Naomi and Kelly arrived in San Francisco for the start of their vacation on the West Coast. They planned to spend a single day with me before renting a car and driving the Pacific Coast up to Portland.
They arrived late Friday night and I picked them up with Flexcar at the airport. After dropping them off at home I ran to Safeway to pick up milk before dropping the car off at Macarthur BART. It was about 1am and there were more people in Safeway than I would have expected. In front of me in line were four late highschool/early college age kids who waited patiently without a single thing to buy. When they reached the head of the line the woman smiled and laughed before heading over to the customer service counter. She returned with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Who know that Safeway was selling Harry Potter books - for $20! On the spur of the moment, remembering the fleeting escape they brought me during my Peace Corps experience I bought one.
18 hours later and I'm 200 pages through already. While it's not the best literature I've ever written I cannot deny that I don't feel a guilty pleasure reading them.
Thanks for a fun run Mr. Potter.
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