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Bookstore Bingo: 9 Totally Ridiculous Things Heard At Bookstores (PHOTOS)

First Posted: 09/17/10 08:54 AM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 06:40 PM ET

We ran it once, we ran it twice, and now we're back for more! It's Bookstore Bingo -- the popular Twitter hashtag #bookstorebingo -- and it never stops being hilarious to see what people have said in bookstores around the globe.

"Can you tell me who the author of Shakespeare is?" Yes, someone actually said that.

"This is a real big library store!" Yes, somebody else actually said that.

And there's always more. Find out what people have said recently and join the conversation yourself -- use #bookstorebingo on Twitter and tell us what you've heard at your local bookshop.

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We ran it once, we ran it twice, and now we're back for more! It's Bookstore Bingo -- the popular Twitter hashtag #bookstorebingo -- and it never stops being hilarious to see what people hav...
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Sethj8888
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11:53 AM on 09/21/2010
I worked in a B&N and wish I had a nickel for every time I heard someone get a phone call
and give a status update and say: "Hey what's up? I'm not really doing anything, just hanging out at Borders" (people from Borders say they always get the opposite. Strange)


But the real knee-slapper? One time, Swear To God, heard this: "Hey what's up? I'm not really doing anything, just hanging out at Amazon..."
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Carolina h
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12:37 PM on 09/20/2010
I was an Asst Manager for a mall bookstore and was interviewing a woman, things were going along well, and toward the end I asked her to sell me her favorite book.
She looked at me in horror and said "I have to read for the job!?"
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ProCynic
Weak minds become partisan, demonizing others.
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11:05 AM on 09/20/2010
Wasn't the last one supposed to be, "I want the book by the Writer Formerly Known as Prince Machiavelli?
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ChelleAgain
It's Chelle ... again.
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10:02 AM on 09/19/2010
I'm guessing example 1 is supposed to be funny because the person hadn't stepped foot in that particular store for about 4 years. That means nothing. I'm sitting in a hotel room a few hundred miles from my house. I've visited 2 book stores this weekend that I only have an opportunity to visit a couple times a year and, with a Kindle, they're not necessities. When I go back to my home state I visit the stores there too. Then, there's Amazon. Too many things we don't know about this scenario other than the person doesn't frequent that particular store.
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lexid523
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04:49 PM on 09/18/2010
My mom is #8 :( Despite being a teacher, despite her asking me over and over to straighten out for her which one is fiction and which one is non-, it just doesn't stick in her brain.
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ChelleAgain
It's Chelle ... again.
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10:03 AM on 09/19/2010
"Truth is stranger than fiction." :)
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Farzan
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11:02 AM on 09/18/2010
"Fiction is real, right?" might not be by definition but many times it is real.
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thinkingwomanmillstone
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09:26 AM on 09/18/2010
George W Bush to bookstore clerk: Can you tell me where I can find a copy of My Pet Goat?
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Callyson
I don't respond to haters or paid trolls.
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09:47 PM on 09/17/2010
I *wish* there were no sales tax on books...food for the brain and all that...
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olddognewtrick
Half full or half empty...It's the same
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03:30 PM on 09/17/2010
My favorite bookseller at the local used bookstore: Paige Turner
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olddognewtrick
Half full or half empty...It's the same
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03:28 PM on 09/17/2010
I see they also have a braille edition...
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Erin Ashby
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03:28 PM on 09/17/2010
As a cashier at Vroman's, a customer complained that we had "too many African American Valentine's Day cards." Which is an interesting comment because it's insane on not one but several different levels.
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abliss2379
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03:20 PM on 09/17/2010
I agree--sales tax on books should be against the law.
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Haunted Leg
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11:58 AM on 09/17/2010
Most seem to be comments by snarky staff.

The "Ethics of Gilgamesh" one did, however, make me chuckle.
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StoutHouse
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11:55 AM on 09/17/2010
Booksellers ridiculing their customers on a public forum. Clever PR move, print stalwarts.
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Nikibee
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04:00 PM on 09/20/2010
Retail employees using the internet to complain about stupid customers is hardly a new phenomenon...
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BlackJAC
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11:48 AM on 09/17/2010
When I worked at Barnes & Noble I found a fiction book shelved in its appropriate section by its title as if it were the author's name.  At least there was some thought process to it rather than "This goes here!" and leaving it in some random location.
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liltruthie
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05:21 PM on 09/20/2010
…sigh. I wish I worked at your location! At mine, honest-to-god, I had a customer ask me, "How long can I check these out for?"
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liltruthie
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05:22 PM on 09/20/2010
oops forgot to mention…that was while working the INFORMATION DESK!
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