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She doesn't drink, so I'm kind of at sea with what to suggest for a first date. We end up meeting at this gelato shop downtown. We hang out for a bit and chat. I ask if she wants to walk over to this book store. We walk over. We walk to the philosophy section (i'm looking for Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, have not been able to find it anywhere). She picks a random book in the philosophy section. Turns out its a book that has no business being there, a Brothers Grimm book. She opens it.

In the back of the book is $700 in cash.

We look around thinking, surely, we're on camera and this is some kind of prank.

We took it. She buys the book for $6. Then we went to a concert together.

I still cannot fucking believe this just happened.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago

having a date and finding wads of cash some people just have it all

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago

hell yeah lmao, the seven hundred dollar brothers grimm philosophy stash probably has a wild backstory that we'll never know

gangster-spongebob

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you might have accidentally found money that was intended for a drug deal or something

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope nobody dies because of it

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

"when you come out your shit is gone, I'm in your area"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i would read the rest of this romcom screenplay

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

This should be a double feature, a romcom and action thriller. Both stories happen in the same time and place, both stories hinge on the book. The action movies inciting incident is our reluctant hero not finding the money for his drop and the baddies believing he stole it.

The romcoms inciting incident is the couple finding this money, sending them off on an adventure of love.

You should be able to watch the start of both movies at the same time and have the two scenes match up.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

is there going to be a second date?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even without the cash, that sounds like a very nice date.

The closest I've come to "700 in the back of a book" is coming across rare/collector's copies of books in a bookstore that were underpriced in wholesale.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I once found a first print copy of 10 Days That Shook the World from 1919 for like $5 at a used book store. Priceless. Sadly, and I will regret this for the rest of my life, I loaned it to a friend and never saw it again.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Yo it's a siiiign marry her!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

statistically you should continue the relationship stonks-up

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

incredible, that's some bananafeels shit

i'd say you're correctly riding the wave

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Breaking Bad rebooted into a rom-com that starts with a meet-cute.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no more half kisses walter

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Time travelers meddling with your date. Beware!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Convince them that the money is cursed unless you use it to do praxis together. Getting free stuff without strings attached usually takes a turn for the worse in Grimm stories.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

op and his date are gonna get their stomachs filled with stones and thrown in the river if they dont spend that money wisely

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

It's a match made in heaven

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

you have to marry just to be able to tell this story

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Gonna be a Grimm story for the guy that left it there for someone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

This sounds like the start of an Atlanta episode.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Simulacra and Simulation was on my list after Deleuze's 'the fold' but I never made it out of the rhizome

You'll have to report back if you find it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

reporting back: after visiting four different local bookstores and not being able to find it anywhere, i caved and just ordered it through the last store i visited. sadly i'm too tired from working doubles all week to even look at it right now.

but i was able to find murray bookchins post-scarcity anarchism for $2, so that was pretty neat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ohhhh, that sounds good, too!