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In reply to the discussion: Dear Local Mall: No wonder so many of your kind are dying off. [View all]mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)I suppose that, if there were a fire and alarms were going off, then if I continued to sit on the floor and people decided it would be a good idea to run through that particular aisle, they might trip. I'm big enough that most people would not trip, but their rushing around would be impeded. Really, it makes no sense.
She seemed fairly young, so I'm going to guess that B&N management decided on some policy and makes the employees enforce it. Now, I've often say there looking at books and not been harassed, and in fact I had just been doing that on the bottom floor by the wordpress books, and nobody harassed me. Maybe their worried about sci-fi geeks lounging on the floor and reading the books rather than buying them?
Regardless, I'm really tempted to claim it's discrimination against tall people.