Working at a bookstore is informative....fun.....and sometimes strange.
Today..... my day was filled with breasts and bathrooms.
Before the store opened....one of the guys on the early crew asked me if I had seen this book.
Yes....I had flipped through it briefly....it's a
photo essay book and the first copy we received in the store.... got a bit ratty since so many men needed to study it.
The Big Book of Breasts....is filled with big breasts....naked breasts. What I hadn't noticed when I first glanced at it a couple months ago.....is.....it's filled with
natural breasts.....breasts before
photoshop and silicone.
It was fascinating.......the pics were mostly in black and white and taken between the 60's and the 90's. The photos clearly showed that large breasts....do not sit high on the chest......but have a natural drift......and nipples aren't smooth.....they have little bumps and ridges in their natural state.
Of course this is not news to women.....but ....I have been so conditioned by magazines....to expect breasts to be perfectly smooth....and sit high on the chest....in every picture I see of them.......it was.....funny/odd/challenging/and educational.....to be reminded....that women don't look like that.....especially if you have more than a champagne glass to fill....in fact....even the models don't really look like that....since its quite common to have a mark or a ridge or a bump.
How strange the world is....that we now sell books which show what large breasts naturally look like.....as if we need a reference book.....or to see what natural breasts looked like before they became extinct in media.
Another thing that shocked me....was that women had hair! Pubic hair! How interesting to see women in lingerie with a fluffy bush!!!. Pubic hair is gone...these days....excepts for runways....or exclamation points.....or a creative design....but all these book women ....had little muffs.
Then I remembered when I was in college....I just shaved my legs.....and trimmed....I never sat in the bathroom....with my legs spread
apart.....being puzzled or confused.....about how much to take off here or there or where ever. I mean how weird is it to study your private parts in the mirror......trying to decide if your runway looks like it's ready for a jumbo jet or an ultralight landing...... Oh happy days....when you just went
au natural....and trimmed only excessive fur.
The other strange part of the day....was how many people....asked where the restrooms were in the store.
Did everyone have big jumbo cups of coffee this morning...or were taking part in some type of spring diuresis rally????....because I was stopped constantly.
In fact...it became so pervasive....we actually started a tally to see how many times we were asked per hour. Of course even when we tell folks where the restrooms are located....they often think we're teasing or playing a trick on them.
Our bathrooms are located under a poster which says....."Gone with the Wind"....so I point and say...."Yes over there on the other side....right under Gone with the Wind"....and they give me a funny look. Sometimes I have to point twice...and say "No ...it's not a joke.....just head towards Gone with the Wind." God Bless the worker in the early days of the store...who had a sense of humor. Of course....the poster next to it....says...."Paradise Lost.".....I admit that would be pretty amusing too.
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