Customer: "I want to buy a book for my mother. She likes Danielle Steel."
Bookseller: "Here she is, under S."
Customer: "Well, I don't know which ones she's already read... Do you?"
(Submitted by Eve Taggart, Half-Price Books, Atlanta, Ga.)
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10 more strange comments from 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores'
Bookstore worker Jen Campbell overheard so many strange customer comments in her shop that she finally collected them 鈥� along with submissions from other booksellers 鈥� in her new book "Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores." We've already told you about 15 of these odd comments. Here are 10 more.
1. Bookseller knowledge
