guess what I hate today... #1

Welcome to a new style post here on no airplay! This will be a recurring post mostly because there are many things I hate! Now it's time for the first one...

guess what I hate today... #1: bookstore "tachi-yomi" (standing-reading)!

Ah, this is a doozie! But to fully appreciate it, you must live in, or at least visit a bookstore in Japan. In the U.S. (don't know how it is in other countries) most bookstores provide an area with benches, or couches, or chairs, or even a cafe that people can take books they are interested in to check them out, flip through them and see if they want to purchase them. Nice idea! In Japan there just isn't the space, and, I know that! But people here don't just flip though the books to see if they want to buy them, they f'n read the book! Right in the aisle!
GOD THIS DRIVES ME CRAZY! Look at this example:I took this picture in a Book Off (new and used bookstore) in Kawasaki over the weekend.

It makes it next to impossible to get through the aisles to find what I'm looking for! You have to squeeze past, (lots of kids carrying big ass bags) and climb over, and push through people all the time! One of the worst parts is that many, many, many of the people that do this "tachi-yomi", don't like to take showers/use deodorant. Of course, this is not a phenomenon strictly occurring in bookstores, head to any convenience store around noon, or in the evening and you can see countless people standing around the magazine rack reading fashion, tech, video game, and even porn mags...

Just one piece of advice for all the perpetrators of the "tchi-yomi" evil: STOP IT! BUY THE FREAKIN BOOK!