Wherefore Art Thou, Education?
I am working in a bookstore in the days when not everyone has Internet at home. A mother and her teenage daughter are looking confused in the fiction section.
Me: “Can I help you?”
Mother: “Yeah. My daughter is doing a report on Shakespeare, so we need to buy the book.”
Me: “Great, I can help you with that. Which play is she studying?”
Mother: “[Daughter], which Shakespeare play are you studying?”
Daughter: “There’s more than one?”
Mother: “Uh… yeah, sweetie! He wrote a lot! What is the story about?”
Daughter: “Ugh. It had some guy called Romeo trying to ask out some girl called Juliet, but I don’t know what it’s called.”
The mother looks at me with a pained expression.
Me: “I think I know which one that is…”
Question of the Week
Have you ever served a bad customer who got what they deserved?