The trailer for Dragon Wars promised me scenes of dragons fighting attack helicopters. This scene did appear in the movie... for about thirty seconds. The rest was an incomprehensible mess of flashbacks within flashbacks and Korean folklore that amounted to very little.
There are always copies of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. There are always copies of The Two Towers or Return of the King, but frequently no copies of The Fellowship of the Ring. There are always copies of the Chronicles of Narnia books, but never an entire set from the same printing. The staff will always have an author that they will defend their excellent writing while acknowledging that they were horrible human beings, e. g. H. P. Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, and recently we get to add Neil Gaiman. If you're very lucky, someone came in and sold a first autographed edition that's worth $100+ but the buyer screwed the pooch and priced it at $10.
Edit: Hang out long enough, and you'll get to hear a customer come in and ask "Can you recommend a book for me?" without providing any more helpful details, and you can hear the staffer's soul break just a tiny bit more.
No person ought, or of right can be compelled, to attend any religious worship, or erect, or support any place of worship, or maintain any minister, contrary to the dictates of his conscience.
--Vermont Constitution, Article 3
Wish we could have got that one in the national Constitution.
Fuck you, make him work for it! Make him fire you, then sue for wrongful termination! Don't just politely get out of the way so you can be replaced by some goon who will happily do the horrible thing you're resigning in protest of!
Use every procedural tool in the box to gum up the works. Demand full debate on every motion. Demand full roll call votes on every vote. Democrats respecting norms and Republicans exploiting them is what got us here, so it's time to turn that around on them. There should be no weird, underhanded, but technically permitted delay tactic that Democrats aren't using until they get enough popular support behind them to actually do something meaningful.
If you go through years of education, learn nothing, and all you get is a piece of paper, then you've just wasted thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars on a worthless document. You can go down to FedEx and print yourself a diploma on nice paper for a couple of bucks.
If you don't actually learn anything at college, you're quite literally robbing yourself.
My version of this would be to run a campaign on the basis of "You know Joe Manchin, and how he's an absolute thorn in the side of the Democratic Party? Well, how about we elect a Republican version of him, who is technically a Republican but who is a goddamn pain in the ass for the Republican party! Vote for me, and I'll live rent free in every Republican's head and drive them absolutely fucking crazy!"
Don't even get me started on enclaves and exclaves.