Teach Them How To Use Their Words

I am working at a bookstore for the holidays, and a woman walks up to me and, with all seriousness, asks:

Customer: “Where do you keep your books?!”

It takes my brain a full five seconds to re-check the sentence for either sarcasm or hidden meaning, and in that time, I am hoping she’ll clarify, but the next thing she says is:

Customer: “I’m a teacher.”

As if that clarified everything. 

I wasn’t able to help her. I still wonder to this day what she actually wanted.