How much more vague can you get? (very short)

[NightAngel]

Lady comes up to the counter last night:

Her: "I'm looking for a movie that starts with the letter T."

CSR and I:
Me thinking: "Wow, thanks for narrowing that down to about a bizzillion titles..."

We rambled off a few newer movie titles with very low hopes of being able to help her. Fortunately, it turned out she wanted Turistas.

[AirHostess]

Are you meant to be able to magically understand what she means?

SC's think we are stupid yet expect us to be able to do amazing things!

[chainedbarista]

hey, at least she didn't say 'i'm looking for a movie...' and leave it at that.

looking for a movie, in a movie rental place...*head explodes*

it's like someone asking me for 'that coffee drink...'

argh.

[NightAngel]

hey, at least she didn't say 'i'm looking for a movie...' and leave it at that.

If she had I would've just said, "Well you've come to the right place." and then stared at her with a blank smile.

[jb17kx]

Lady comes up to the counter last night:

Her: "I'm looking for a movie that starts with the letter T."

Give her Tora! Tora! Tora! and ask her to come back when she's watched and understood the whole thing.

[AFpheonix]

or The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T....

"Is it atomic?"
"Yes, sir, VERY atomic!"

[Imogene]

I actually got a customer who challenged me to similar. Told me he had an alphabetic movie collection, with at least one movie from every letter. Except... Y, I think...
I stopped, looked at him, asked his movie preferences, and spit out, "Young Frankenstein?"
Guy grinned, and said, "I'd never thought of that one!"

Nice AM asked me later how I knew so many titles. "I alphabetize the damn store roughly once a month, thanks to no one else being willing to do it. I've got the store memorized."

[mariamousie1]

Hmm...T. Let's see what it could have been if it weren't Turistas.
Titanic, Terminator, Telladega Nights, any movie that starts with THE!!! '

[BookstoreEscapee]

Reminds me of the woman who was looking for a book, it started with the word "The." She seriously thought I could do a search with that. (And for you BNers out there, this was before Bookmaster, when you couldn't even do a keyword search without crashing the computer. We used to have to be really careful about logging off the computers on the floor, lest some hapless SC decide they couldn't be bothered to find an employee and just try to use the computer themselves.)

[Daphne]

I get that all of the time. I also deal with idiots who tell me they want the book they read in 7th grade with a blue cover. I cut them short right then and there. I tell them that if they don't have any other information regarding their mystery book, I can't help them.

Another thing I hate is when people act like I'm lying to them when I tell them we don't have a title. I have to give them the whole library district can't purchase everything spiel. Then they'll ask if another one of our branches has the book. It never occurs to them that all 13 urban branches and 8 outlying branches share the same damn catalog.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Does it frighten anyone else when the customer makes some horribly vague request and you actually know what they're talking about? That scares me.

[Imogene]

No way, Bookstore Escapee. I love confounding customers who expect me to want to kill them. An impossible task, met with an unfounded knowledge. Ends in fireworks, usually.
/Ooooh, pretty!

[BookstoreEscapee]

No way, Bookstore Escapee. I love confounding customers who expect me to want to kill them. An impossible task, met with an unfounded knowledge. Ends in fireworks, usually.
/Ooooh, pretty!

Oh, I know, it is fun and mightily satisfying. It still scares me, though

[Dave1982]

I get this sort of nonsense all the time.

"Yeah, I need an ink cartridge."

"Ok, do you know which one."

"HP"

Yeah....that only narrows is down to about 50 different cartridges.

"OK, what's the model number for your printer?"

"Deskjet"

[Rubyred]

Hehe...that movie is awful anyway.

My ex works at B&N. While we were dating he called me on his break to tell me that a woman had walked up to him and told him she needed him to find her a book. Very normal. Right?

Wrong.

Did she know the title?

No.

Did she know the author?

No.

Did she even know what the hell the book was about?

Haha..we could only wish right?


So what was it that she did know?


The book was blue....you can't make this stuff up.