A Real Classic
(I am a customer talking to a salesperson when I am interrupted by another customer.)
Customer: “Do you have any Beethoven?”
Sales Person: “Certainly, our Classical section has quite a selection of Beethoven.”
Customer: “Well, I couldn’t find any of Beethoven, only various orchestras performing Beethoven’s music. Don’t you have any live Beethoven?”
Sales Person: “Well, no, we don’t, and I don’t think you will manage to find that anywhere.”
Customer: “I bet [Other Store] across the way has it.”
Sales Person: “I would doubt that, but you are welcome to check.”
Customer: “Why don’t you think they will have it?”
(I just have to interrupt.)
Me: “Because everyone knows that all the live copies of Beethoven burned up in his estate fire.”
Customer: “I didn’t know that. So, if there are no live recordings anywhere, how do people know what it sounds like?”
Me: “The sheet music was luckily printed on fireproof paper.”
Customer: “Wow, they had fire-proof paper back then?”
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