The Dragon & George

A regular saturday pilgrimage for all geeks of a certain age.
Still the coolest place in glasgow.

Probably one of the most extensive collections of paper based role playing game books I’ve ever seen. It’s not something I’ve ever tried personally, so what the hell am I writing a review for?
Because of this: I overheard the owner, who I’d imagine was in his fifties, chatting with a young teenager, clearly a regular at the store.
The kid was busy telling the shopkeeper all about how he had finally collected all of the Pokemon.
For those of you not familiar with the blockbuster hand held game from Nintendo, in Pokemon you assume the role of a trainer in a virtual world. You explore, you level up, and you catch Pokemon. Despite the slogan, very, very few people catch them all.
The kid continued to enthuse. He was now one of the best Pokemon trainers in the world, he had beaten the Elite Four!
The owner, as far as I could tell, had absolutely no idea what this kid was talking about. More so, the kid had a really terrible stutter, so this conversation took a long, long time.
But the owner never stopped listening. He didn’t pretend to be busy, he didn’t look down his nose. He just listened intently, constantly offering congratulations and amazement at the kid’s achievement.
I think this is maybe one of the only places in the whole of the city centre that kid would have been treated like that. Honestly, I don’t know that I would have been so patient.
So kudos to that guy.