true customer tales!

poly gal:
Where's your non-fiction section?

me:
everything in the store is non-fiction...except the fiction.
What are you looking for?

poly gal:
Uh...like, literature?

me:
That's fiction- right this way.


(later)

poly gal:
I'm looking for, uh, Rilke?

me:
He's usually in poetry...

poly gal:
Oh, I'm looking for a novel- where's the non-fiction section?

me:
.......



THIS IS NOT A HOAX, NOT A DREAM, NOT AN IMAGINARY STORY!
Rather it is a verbatim transcript of our sanity-shattering conversation.

We as a race are extremely lucky breathing is an autonomic function.