I convinced a mom to buy The Lightning Thief!

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Okay so a day or so ago I was a Powell's and was in the 'young adult' fantasy section looking for a book called Bitterblue (I'm reading it now, it's amazing by the way!). Over the intercom a lady said that the store was closing in 5 minutes and right after that a boy, who looked like he was a bit younger than me, and his mom walked into the same section as I was. He stood right next to me and scanned the wall of books for what he was looking for. Can you guys guess what it was? The Lightning Thief! He took it off the shelf and asked his mom if he could get it. It kind of went like this:

She was like "well honey, I don't know, do you really want this book? The store is closing."

He was really sure, "Mom I really do! Pretty please?"

Now I'm a on the shy side so normally I would never talk to people I didn't know, but this was the Percy Jackson books we're taking about here! I had to say something!

I put my two cents in and said, "You know, that is my FAVORITE book of all time, I mean it's even on sale right now, absolutely worth the money!"

The mom looked at me for a moment the let out this big dramatic sigh and said, "Alright, alright"

This boy gave me the biggest smile ever, he was SO happy! he said thanks at least ten times and, man, I feel like I just saved a life or sometime! Maybe it's totally lame that this happened a few days ago and I still feel awesome, but I really don't care. :)
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ForeverAKilljoy13's avatar
Hehehe.... I know how you feel. I remember recommending the PJ books to some of my buds who never really read and they loved it (maybe even more than I do). :)