The conflict.
The conflict in question took place at a used books store where I purchased a book a week earlier. I usually look through all the pages really quickly before buying but this time I made a mistake of not doing that; after I brought the book home I did not touch it for a week, and when I finally opened it I found that almost half of the pages were covered in ink and it was unreadable. I tried to return the book or exchange it for another one but had a hard time explaining the situation to the ...