"People dream about owning a bookstore and how magical it must be. But the reality is, a little less magical," Good Neighbor Bookstore in Lakewood, N.Y., posted on Instagram. "I still wouldn't trade it for anything. But when a shelf randomly breaks, and in your efforts to repair it, the only solution you have to hold pieces of wood together is a step stool jammed between the shelf and a wall while you wait for glue to dry... it's the scenes they leave out of hallmark movies...."

