Alphabetical Order
I was at Barnes and Noble today to pick up a certain book. I stole away to the section I knew it would be located in. I wanted to be there for as little time as possible. It certainly wasn’t a place I wanted to be seen. I quickly made my way to the M’s. I quickly scanned the spines for the name, George R. R. Martin.
“Oh, there’s McMarrow,” I thought to myself. I looked a shelf higher. And looked and looked some more. There wasn’t a George R. R. Martin in sight. I started to get nervous. This delay might cause me to be spotted lingering in that section. I started to look at every single spine carefully. There was no George R. R. Martin. Impossible. He was a popular author, they had to have at least one book by him.
Dejected, I was about to walk away when a thought occurred to me. Could it be possible? Could M-A be located after M-C? I checked the next row over–after M-C. Aha! Here are all the missing M-A’s. And there, on the shelf below, George R. R. Martin’s A Clash of Kings. I quickly grabbed it and got the hell out of there.
Is M-A after McSomething a common convention in organizing things in alphabetical order? I think I may have missed a memo.