Chris.

Chris.

Annie.

I experienced my weirdest

my weirdest customer interaction last week in all my years of book selling and customer

service.

I need to know everything.

Okay.

So a woman came into the store.

And I'm going to set this up by saying, I have a younger brother, I think I've talked

about it on here before.

And when he was little, he would talk nonstop. And I, as the eldest child, used to, like, count the seconds between when he would stop talking and when he would start talking again. And it was, like, minuscule, like, just a couple of seconds. So this particular customer was very chatty. Like, the moment she came in the door, she just had a lot of questions, which there's nothing wrong with. Please ask us questions. Always. But she had a lot of questions. And for every question, before I could like finish my answer, she had another question. So it was just a lot, which that, you know, that's fine. That is not the weirdest thing we have ever experienced. But she was kind of walking around the store and she had on a purse and then she was carrying her Trader Joe's like reusable shopping bag.

And so I assumed she was kind of a tourist who had been shopping in Thomasville.

And we ring her up at the register.

She has a couple of questions.

We have a very awkward interaction in which I kind of held her hand as she handed me match boxes.

It was very uncomfortable.

And I will give you the details of that later. However, then after we ring her up, um, she says, hey, you know

the traveling gnome? And we were like, sure, traveling nom. She said, you know, like the

Travelocity known? I guess she meant like the noam that like you take pictures of him, I guess, in front of...

Like a flat Stanley kind of thing?

Yes, like flat Stanley.

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