[Listen: polite is a poor disguise for cranky. Besides, it's a code Mista's pretty good at deciphering these days. He doesn't bother hiding his grin, but otherwise doesn't comment on it. It's not like it's not totally valid crankiness.]

Bureaucracy is the same everywhere you go, I guess. Buy your own paper clips.

[Mista has never used a paper clip in his life, except to pick a lock once in a pinch. But he's still right. Standing up on his toes, he peers over the heads in the crowd to look at the stalls at the end of the row.]

I think there's a stall with books down there. I don't see anything that looks like a notebook exactly, but that's the closest there is, I'm pretty sure. You wanna check it out?