The Thin Red Line

So there I was, shelving in the 610’s, all the wild animals of the 500’s at my back, the words of Chris Webb ringing in my ears (…we’re ALL dummies about Something….) and I turned to slide the gazzilionth book into it’s proper place and there, staring me in the face from the spine of a bright yellow Dummies book was that grandmotherly sexpert, Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

I would have expected Dr. Ruth to be looking out from the front cover of her book. I suspect she slipped around onto the spine in order to observe the intimate habits of the 500’s fauna across the aisle, having tired of reading her neighbor’s back cover. I picked up Dr. Ruth and put her on the lower shelf of my cart and then grabbed the next two intelligence-impaired titles extant, which proved to be The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amazing Sex and First Aid & Safety for Dummies.

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