ITS SO FUNNY! Customer: Do you have Romeo and Juliet? Bookseller: Yes, Shakespeares plays are in this section here. Customer: No, I want the book the play was based on. Customer: Hi, Im looking for a book but I cant remember the title or the author... I know the title in French. Bookseller: Hmmm, do you have anymore information? Customer: No, but can you reserve it for me? Customer: Hi, do you have any new books? Bookseller: We’re an antiquarian bookshop – our stock is out of print books. Customer: So other people have touched them? Bookseller: Presumably, yes. Customer: I don’t think I’ll bother, thanks. Bookseller: OK. Customer: Hi, do you have that sperm cookbook? Bookseller: No. Customer: That’s a shame; I really wanted to try it. Have you tried it? Bookseller: I have not. Customer: I have The Pickwick Papers, 1st edition. How much will you buy them for? Bookseller: *examines book* Sorry, this was printed in 1910. Customer: Yes. Bookseller: The Pickwick Papers was first printed in 1837; this isn’t a first edition. Customer: No it was definitely first printed in 1910. Bookseller: Dickens was dead in 1910. Customer: I don’t think so. You’re trying to con me. Bookseller: I promise you, I’m not. Customer: *glares for a while, then picks the book back up quickly* I’m taking them to the Sotheby’s Auction! *storms out* Customer: You have maps? Bookseller: Yes, we do. Road maps? Customer: Yes. Bookseller: We have old ones – Ordnance Survey maps, and road maps, here. Customer: I need a map to Dover. Bookseller: *looks around.* I’m not sure we have a specific South-East map. We have a road map of the UK. Customer: No. I walk. Bookseller: You’re walking? Customer: Yes. Bookseller: To Dover? Customer: Yes. Bookseller: That’s very very far. Customer: It’s five miles, yes? Bookseller: No. It’s about eighty miles. Customer: You point me in the right direction? Bookseller: I don’t know which way it is from here. Customer: Ok. I follow the smell of the sea. Sources: powells/blog/guests/no-reading-required-part-5-how-bookstore-customers-seem-to-see-bookstores-by-dan-wilbur/ autostraddle/bookstore-customers-say-the-darndest-things-98174/ notalwaysright/tag/bookstore
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