Editors Humour.
Bookstore owners share their customers’ oddest requests.
“Where’s your true fiction section?”
Holding an autographed book: “I want to buy this book but not this copy because someone’s written in it.”
“Do you have Pride and Produce?”
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A police officer, pulled someone over for texting while driving, a big no-no. The driver was having none of it. “I was not texting!” she insisted indignantly. “I was on Facebook.”
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In a documentary, a man shared that he had earned a law degree at Oxford. Then, in his thick English accent, he proudly proclaimed that he was now a “barrister.”
My 13-year-old daughter wasn’t impressed. “So,” she said, “he spent all that effort getting an Oxford law degree, and now he works at McDonald's?”
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While phoning a friend, Sue's grandmother dialled the wrong number. She apologized and tried again, but she got the same number. Once more she hung up and redialed - the same result. Now Grandma was frustrated.
“Look,” she told the person on the other end, “I’m going to call my friend again. This time, don’t answer her phone!”
