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Obligatory reading for Kantfags who think they now know how to argue

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let's have a humor thread. i posted this in yesterday's thread too but it had already hit bump limit. it was very painful so i want others to read about it. rate my experience

>be me
>be german
>want to read stirner
>decide to order the ego and its own online through a local bookstore
>go to pick it up
>store is only open for picking up orders because of corona
>wearing mask
>the day i ordered it i came up with what i thought was a sick piece of small talk
>decide to use it on the person processing my order, no matter who it's gonna be
>rehearsing the bit in my head
>hoping for a cute girl
>go up to the register and it's a middle aged woman
>tell her i ordered a book
>she says "name?"
>i thought she asked for the author's name and say "Max Stirner"
>she's typing it in and says no one by that name ordered anything
>i explain and give her my name
>already cringing
>she gets the book
>as she hands it to me i prepare for my badass small talk bit
>start by saying "you know-" right as she gives me the total
>off we go again
>mumbling under my mask "you know if I adhered to the philosophy that this book is talking about i would steal this book hehe"
>"I'm sorry come again?"
>keep mumbling "well this book talks about egoism... it's about you know, being your own creative nothing"
>she doesn't seem to understand
>"it's not that important"
>asks me to pay again
>struggle to get the money out of my wallet with the book in my hand
>leave
>as i exit i shake my head and realize i did not act like an egoist