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Things about being a bookseller:
I encounter more obnoxious customers in a week at my bookshop than I did in my entire nine month stint at a lingerie/sex shop. Although at least book-buying obnoxious customers tend to be shouty and rude as opposed to perverted and smelly. I can deal with shouty and rude. Usually by trying desperately not to laugh in their faces. XD
Before starting work in a bookshop, I thought it both hilarious and ridiculous that some customers would allegedly ask "I'm looking for a book. I think it's blue". Now, while that precise query is a ridiculous one to be sure, I'm less mocking of this kind of thing. If you can't remember much about a book, ANYTHING you can remember helps. A book with "boy" in the title that's not 'About A Boy'? No idea. It's apparently very good? Doesn't narrow it down much, sorry. It's quite a thick book? 'A Suitable Boy' by Vikram Seth! When I ask if you can remember *anything* else about the book you apparently only remember one detail about, I'm not kidding; ANYTHING can be the difference between "no damn clue" or "I know precisely which book you mean!".
Oh but it's all so worth it for the staff discount and the free proof copies... :3
I encounter more obnoxious customers in a week at my bookshop than I did in my entire nine month stint at a lingerie/sex shop. Although at least book-buying obnoxious customers tend to be shouty and rude as opposed to perverted and smelly. I can deal with shouty and rude. Usually by trying desperately not to laugh in their faces. XD
Before starting work in a bookshop, I thought it both hilarious and ridiculous that some customers would allegedly ask "I'm looking for a book. I think it's blue". Now, while that precise query is a ridiculous one to be sure, I'm less mocking of this kind of thing. If you can't remember much about a book, ANYTHING you can remember helps. A book with "boy" in the title that's not 'About A Boy'? No idea. It's apparently very good? Doesn't narrow it down much, sorry. It's quite a thick book? 'A Suitable Boy' by Vikram Seth! When I ask if you can remember *anything* else about the book you apparently only remember one detail about, I'm not kidding; ANYTHING can be the difference between "no damn clue" or "I know precisely which book you mean!".
Oh but it's all so worth it for the staff discount and the free proof copies... :3