Customer: Hi.
Me: Hello, what can I help you with?
Customer: These books, do you buy or do you borrow?
Me (in disbelief): Excuse me?
Customer: do you buy, or can you borrow?
Me (my mind having been blown): Um...no, you can't borrow.
Customer: Oh. okay. Thank you.
Customer: I'm looking for a book.
Me: Okay.
Customer: It's a novel. I don't remember the name of the author or the title. It's kinda scary. I saw it in one of your other stores and the author had signed it...
Me: Okay...so it's either Mystery or Horror.
Customer: That's all I know about it.
Me: Right...Do you recall anything about the plot?
Customer: Umm, I think it had to do with some murder and they were trying to solve it. The author had signed the book.
Me: (*Thinking* So that's pretty much every Mystery novel ever written...good.)
Customer: The author's only written this book and nothing else.
Me: Okay, so is it a hardcover.
Customer: No, it wasn't that but bigger than these ones.
Me: So it was a trade paperback.
Customer: Yeah, maybe. I remember the cover was shiny. I just remember seeing signed copies in the other store.
Me: (*Thinking* I give up. I've officially lost interest.)
