Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Conversation from a Bookstore

Me: Hands the clerk the book I am buying.

Clerk: Oh, I need to read this one.

Me: Actually, I'm going to read this one, but you can read one of the others back on the shelf.

Clerk: stares at me.

Well, I mean, really...

4 comments:

Malnurtured Snay said...

Excellent! I work in a bookstore and far too often people will come in, ask for a book "by that guy ... about that thing ... with that character..." and I just point back to the upper level and say, "It's over there."

Anonymous said...

Nice.

Anonymous said...

lol... and a sense of humor @ the counter is never there when you need it.

-C

Gilahi said...

Some people just don't have any sense of humor, do they? I'm always telling the waiter, "Hi, I'm Gilahi and I'll be your customer tonight", and they never laugh.