Reply #31: That's kinda funny

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I have actually bought books in Winnipeg. I bought "The Early Asimov" and one or two other books. This was in 1980, so you may have not even been born yet. It was cool because they did not have a "Canadian" price on the book, so the books were 10-15% off because the Canadian dollar was worth 85-90 American cents.
That was the Minnesota marching band's trip for the year. We played for the halftime of a Jets game and had lunch at a HS.
I also witnesses a bizarre incident there. I was walking along the downtown and I hear glass breaking. This guy was coming out of the store and the glass door which was about 12 feet high shattered as he pushed it open. So here is this hardcore vandal standing about two feet from me. I may even have spoken with him "what happened?" "I don't know, it just broke." He quickly decides to get the Zark out of there and darts across the street. Then a security guy comes out, and he is the person I may have spoken with, at least I pointed him in the direction the guy ran and he gave chase but soon returned alone. On the one hand, I could have caught the guy, but on the other hand it was not clear to me that he had done anything. In America, I think a store would be happy that the guy was not suing the store for scaring the crap out of him and for almost killing him with their defective door.