Jane Austen-tacious
Customer: “Hi. Maybe you can help me. I saw a movie last night on TV. It was about those things that Oprah does? Do you know what it was?”
Me: “What happened in the movie?”
Customer: “Well, they read books, but only by this one person who writes books.”
Me: “Like a book club?”
Customer: “Yes! A book club! But the movie came from a book. What was the title?”
Me: “Was it The Jane Austin Book Club?”
Customer: “Yes! Would you have any books by Jane Austen?”
Me: “Absolutely!”
(I take her to our Jane Austen books. She is very excited and starts flipping through them.)
Customer: “Hey, wait! There’s no photo of her! I want to see what she looks like!”
Me: “I’m afraid there aren’t any photos of her.”
Customer: “Why not?”
Me: “She lived two hundred years ago.”
Customer: “Oh! So, do all of her books take place in her time?”
Me: “Yes.”
Customer: “So… she didn’t write The Jane Austen Book Club?”
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