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Here are 15 strange remarks from bookstore customers, compiled by writer and bookstore staff member Jen Campbell.
Customer: "We've found some really old books in the attic. Would you be interested in buying them?"
Bookseller: "That depends, what sort of books are they?"
Customer: "Well, one of them is a copy of 'Gone with the Wind,' printed in the 1890s."
Bookseller: "Well, you know, 'Gone with the Wind' was written in the 1930s."
Customer: "Well, yeah, but this is a really old copy." (Submitted by Terry Dallas, Armchair Books, Pendleton, OH)
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