No Demand for Reading Material.

An illuminating conversation between two sales girls, which I recently overheard in an Oxford Street store.

“Oi! Mandy! What’s this then?” Holding up the strip of embossed leather to her colleague.
“Oh that! It’s a book marker.”
“What’s it for then Mandy?”
“It’s for books.”
“Ow’dj mean?”
“If you read a book you stick it inside and it keeps your page.”
“Eh? Do you read books then Mandy?”
“Nah! But some people do.”
“Wierd!”