General Knowledge Generally Gets You In Trouble
Customer: “Hello, do you work here?”
Me: “No, I’m sorry. I don’t.”
Customer: “Then why do you have so many books in your hands?”
Me: “I am about to purchase them.”
Customer: “You read?”
Me: “Yes.”
Customer: “Then you must work here.”
Me: “I’m sorry, but I don’t.”
Customer: *picking up one of the books in my arms* “J.D. Salinger? Who’s that?”
Me: “An author. He wrote Catcher in the Rye.”
Customer: “See! You do work here! You know what books he wrote!”
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