Potter Mania hits Canberra

I walked into K-Mart Tuggers at 10am. I saw people lining up downstairs for the Dymock’s pre-orders.

K-Mart had a stack of them and so I grabbed one. It took no more than 5 mins and the Dymock’s line hadn’t really moved.

I had it finished by last night (fast reader).

borders was shite..for people who had pre-ordered (apparently like this person who fell in the lake!) we had to line up in one line, pay, and then go into an even bigger line, to collect the book.

I should of just gone to big w or kmart…

Saundered into Big W Gunghalinat about 11 – got book of card table near entrance for Mrs Danman – walked around to self serve pay point and paid – took about 2 minutes in all.

Big W looked no busier than normal

I had to hang around Civic this morning while my car got its oil, and the lines outside Borders before 9am were big, meanwhile Dymocks opposite starbucks in City Walk was very quiet. They had a card table set up inside the door piled with books,and people were just walking in, grabbing book and paying for it.

In hindsight I could’ve grabbed 10 and scalped them to the poor loons in the Borders line.

Shows the value of hype, though.

things like this makes you ashamed to live in Canberra.. -_-