Avengers assemble!

[Laughing Penguin]

Originally Posted by Stmfuller

sounds like they wouldn't be hanging in my comic book store then (if I owned one). You can be my friend, but you'll need to plop some some green for comics every.single.time you come in.
In business, the only good friends are the ones with money.

I can relate to this, I ran a shop for a few years. The thing is, those 'customers' are not the owner's friends, but since those kinds of geeks don't have many real-world friends the guy who works the counter becomes their main social contact. There were quiet days at my shop where I would be told excrutiating details about one guy's Battlestar Galactica LARP group, and telling him I had work to do did not discourage him.