Public Shaming

WHY do some secondhand bookshop cashiers feel the need to loudly announce the title of an item that you are in the process of buying? "Ah, Scientology!" he said. Judging by the suspicious looks I received from the other customers on the way out, you would think I was L. Ron Hubbard himself.

This is the same person who once bored me to tears about his time in the Hastings branch of the Communist Party. Oh well, at least he knows how to recognise another cult when he sees one.