customer #2911: "yes, hello, i'm wondering if you have any books by bob weiner."
me: (i look up the author) "actually, yes. but it looks like i only carry one title in english--bible studies for the preparation of the bride."
#2911: "oooh. that's all you carry by him?"
me: "i do carry a spanish title, as well. it's bible studies for a firm foundation."
#2911: "but it's spanish?"
me: "yes, ma'am."
#2911: "so, you only have those two titles? you don't have bible studies for a life of excellence?"
me: "no. i don't."
#2911: "hmm. you don't. you have bible studies for the preparation of the bride but you're sure that's it?"
me: "i'm sure. yes."
#2911: "hmm. ok. well. that's it? that's all you have?"
me: "yes. anything else i can do for you?"
#2911: "well. no, i mean, if that's all you have by him, right?"
me: "yep."
#2911: "ok. thank you."
my brain feels odd. and too big for my skull.
6 comments:
Are you really sure you don't have it?
i'll check again...yeah, no.
the thing is--do these people think i'm just really that stupid? or do they think i'm pathological?
Or pathologically stupid. ZING!
Wait, are you sure you don't have it? Maybe a box came in while you were just telling me that you didn't have any.
you know...what's sad is that i have people who say these things to me.
the stories...ohhhh, the stories.
my favorite was the one time i was entering an order for a woman and after she gave me an ISBN, i said, "ok, that's battlefield of the mind by joyce meyer in spanish."
she yelled into the phone, "SPANISH? no, girl, i don't want it in spanish. don't you have it in american?"
I agree with her. I think all people who come to the Unites States should speak American. It is our national language after all. It way better than speaking British or Canadian.
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