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I read The Mister in public (and survived)

Added 2019-05-13 13:39:20 +0000 UTC

In our last episode I challenged those of you who were not so traumatized by the damage that buying The Mister had done to your Amazon algorithm to go and read it in a public setting. I would never ask you to do anything that I wouldn't do, so I boldly ventured to my favorite coffee shop in town (it is a total coincidence that it is a coffee shop that serves beer) with the book in tow, sat at my favorite table in a window so to be more visible to passersby, and read it for the better part of an hour.

I received no odd looks. Nobody tapped me on the shoulder and then punched me when I turned around. There were two woman close by that I suspected might be surreptitiously taking a picture to mock me on social media but it turned out that they were just looking at their phones instead of talking to each other.

In short, it was a positive experience, in that the beer was cold and delicious. I hope you will give it a try.

Of course, the perceived shame it did to my reputation was so large that I retreated to the woods the next day. I am posting this from a home computer fashioned from twigs and powered by jury rigged hydroelectric dam. I may never return.

Also I saw this Bob Honey inspired beer on the way to the campsite. I did not buy it, as the association with Chimeras and Sharting is too powerful to overcome.