"Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?" (from Campbell)
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15 funny lines from 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores'
Jen Campbell, inspired by the strange conversations she overheard at the bookstore she worked at, started a blog chronicling the funniest of them. Her book 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores' includes some of her own stories and submissions from other bookstore owners and workers. Here are 15 of the oddest.
1. A Dickens downer
