Sukkot's him to a T

Sure, Charles Glassenberg could just get his lulav and etrog from his synagogue, but he prefers to go hard core and get them from the Israel Book Shop in Brookline:

... This is one of my relatively few annual encounters with the most Orthodox part of the Jewish community, and it is always an interesting one. The gentlemen are curt but polite as they deal with a guy (me) who is obviously not frum. In recent years I've brought Roxanne with me, and she finds the whole scene fascinating. This world of men in beards black hats haggling in Yiddish, Hebrew and English over lumpy lemons is a world away from her temple nursery school's neat and tidy world of Conservative Judaism. ...