Wednesday, January 2, 2008

! ! ! this just in ! ! !

PATRON: excuse me, is your fiction sorted alphabetically?

ME (in my head): no sir, they're sorted by the number of chapters...good luck!
ME (in real life): yes sir.

PATRON: the "w"'s?
ME (in my head): they're were they've been for hundreds of years. If you don't know the alphabet, why'd you ask?

ME: the shelves are labeled sir, but the W's are right there after the V's.

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I mean, REALLY! I did not attend the best schools in all the land, but they did manage to teach me the alphabet on the way through. What is the problem?

4 comments:

Katie said...

BwaHahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Hooo Haa haa haa haaa
that
was
brilliant
;)
k

Holley T said...

Yes, I've been simmering about that ALL day!
"Where are the W's" INDEED!

I would not have been surprised if he'd asked me the number for 9-1-1.

sheesh!

Jeff Stankard, Group Publisher said...

Maybe he was schooled in a poverty stricken area that couldn't afford to include the entire alphabet. You should have quizzed him a little more. Perhaps he doesn't know how numbers work either...

Holley T said...

bskove-he would have disappointed me there too and I would have been even more pissed off. I decided to cut my losses :)