pottermania III

it was another long night in the bookshop.
things have been basically torn apart for the past several days due to the customers who come in to buy harry potter, but take 300 hundred books off the shelves (and put them on random tables)in the process. it is also july, which is to say stock take time. so the boss asked for volunteers to do an overnight shift of stock taking.
i really dont mind this sort of thing: we got free food and a cab home, plus double time for working aftr midnight, and the work was pretty mindless.
the shop closer at the usual time, and suddenly a mob of about 40 indian guys came pouring into the shop all dressed in identical shirts, trousers and ties, with these strange zapping machines. they then combed through the shop at lightening spped, zapping the barcode of every single book on the way. it was an incredible sight, i have never seen guys work so fast (and they were all guys, i noted, there was not a single girl among them). then my collegues and i went behind them, spot checking the shelves to make sure they got everything. they were pretty accurate, i only found about 5 mistakes the whole night, which considering the hundreds of books i checked isnt much.
it is strange being in the shop in the middle of the night with no customers. kind of spooky actually.