(Answering phone at the bookshop)
Iliad Bookshop!
(long pause) Is this the Iliad Bookshop?
Yes, this is the Iliad Bookshop.
Do you have rare books there?
Yes, we have rare books. What are you looking for?
What?
What book are you looking for? Do you know the title and author?
It's "Trader Vic's Bartending Guide"
(Looks in the Bartending section. Comes back to phone)
We don't have a copy of that book right now. I've seen it here before , but it's a hard one to find.
What?
It's a hard book to find.
But I thought you said you had rare books!
We do. But we don't have that one. Do you have access to the internet? You could try abebooks.com they...
Aw, I don't like that stuff.
Well, you'll just have to call around to different bookstores. You could call...
That's what I've been doing!
I don't know what to tell you. You'll just have to call some other stores to see if they have a copy. I can give you...
Naw, never mind. (Hangs up)
You're welcome.
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2 comments → Strange Calls to the Bookstore #1
Remember "Mad's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions"?
1. Ten bucks, waddaya think?
2. Duh...duh...De uh Fee
3. They're free for everyone but you.
4. twenty bucks, waddaya think?
5. They were free right up until you asked that question.
6. Perhaps the "free" concept is unknown in the place you grew up in.
7. Waddya, a wise guy? Dere Free! Jeez.
8. As free as the azure skies of deepest summer
My all-time favorite stupid comment: Upon returning to the phone to inform a customer that we didn't have the books she was looking for, she queried (after the appropriate dramatic pause): "You mean you're...all out of books?!"
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