Moishes Occult

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Located in the basement of a near-tenement, Moishe's Occult is renowned amongst a particular subculture of, if they don't have it in stock, they're able to get it. Moishe himself is seemingly never in, and the place doesn't have an answering machine. Moishe, that old Jewish gentleman, is reputed to claim that artificially recording devices frighten away the spirits. However, the person that always seems to be in is Yanya, Moishe's long-suffering, under-tall wife of over sixty years who seems to be the only person able to not only put up with the ever-absent Moishe as well as his odd little business - and with over seven decades in America, neither she nor Moishe has lost their Yiddish accent or its Slavic undertones that date back from their flight, as children, from Russia in the early days of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Sample conversation with Yanya

"No, no, no, no, Moishe took the car, he didn't say where he was going, he didn't take a taxi, if I want to go to the market, I have to take a taxi, and we don't have a dog, but there was someone talking about dogs today, yes, he bought a bag, that's right, and he didn't even barter, Moishe's getting soft in his old age, that cost eight dollars and Moishe let him walk for only ten, it was worth fifteen at least!"