constructing basic sentences

[ilovedragons]

Lady: Can I ask you a question?
Me: Sure!
Lady: El motociclista.

So, in what way was that a question?

And to make it even more exciting, she'd given me the Spanish title, when she wanted the book in German (I work in a German bookshop), and she didn't know the author, just that it may be about Che Guevara. Nice

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[hagboo]

My favorite on in that vein was when a customer recently walked up to the counter, and said to the clerk, "Mary?"...to which the clerk replied, "no, my name is Grace". It was awesome. Of course, the customer was looking for the book entitled "Mary", but that'll teach him to use full sentences.

[ems]

I assume she wanted The Motorcyle Diaires? There is nothing more annoying than when people just bark titles at you, apropos of nothing. Gaaaaah. Our most common is "maps". Not "where do you keep your maps?", just "maps".

[dyfferent]

Sport!

[ems]

DIARIES.

[cryingdrunkgirl]

I just love it when they say a name. I never know if its an author or if they are picking up a special order. If I think it's one I will pretend that I think they meant the other. I like to hope that this will teach them to be more polite and actually put a real sentence/question together, but sadly I doubt it will change anything.

[moosefluff]

Ah! That happens to me too! Problem is, sometimes they get sniffy that we don't know ALL the authors on our shelves!

[cryingdrunkgirl]

Last week I had a man ask me about an author and when I asked how to spell the last name he said,"He's one of the most famous authors in the world." I informed him that that was great, but that I still needed the spelling.

He didn't know.

I don't remember the author's name, but I know that I had never heard of him. He was definitely not one of the most famous authors in the world.

[cdnbookslave]

The number of times people grunt and point or give me one word statements with several possible interpretations and then look at me like I'm stupid because I can't read their minds could seriously drive me postal. People are crazy.

[sjgrrrl]

makes me think of the the of so nice lady( notice the sarcasim) a while back who rather loudly asked me for Perricone.

Her: "Perricone"
Me: "I'm sorry what?"
Her: "Perricone. Where do you have Perricone books?
Me: "Is that an author? A title? A publisher?
Her: exsapersted "Dr. Perricone, he writes all those diet books>"
Me: "Oh, sorry I don't read diet books." then I showed her to the section, with her drilling holes in the back of my head all the way there.

[dyfferent]

Was she jealous of you for not needing to or judging you for not bothering?

I'm the fattest person in my shop by far, and yet people still ask me about diet books as if I would know! Yeah, clearly I spend alllll my time living off the edicts of cabbage soup fart books.

[dyfferent]

as if I would know = as if I have use them, not as if I know which is which. Yes, I can tell you who wrote what. I just can't say if any of them are any good.