So today at work, I was in the book section. Sometimes I work up front at the register, but today I was in books. Because I like books. I even bought books today. I get a discount on books, because I work there. I LOVE BOOKS!

I don't answer the phone at the book desk. Someone up front answers it, and then they page whoever the call is for-books, music, movies etc. So I get a call. Not unusual. I have a phone at the book desk where I can take calls, so that's where the book associate answers book calls.

So I pick up, ask how I can help them.

Firstly, for some reason this guy's voice is pretty low. I'm having trouble hearing him. Anyway, I press the phone to my ear, and try to close my other ear with my hand so I can hear him. He's going on about how he just got married, and like, his son's new aunt or something spanks her kid. And now she's going away for like a week, and wants his new wife to spank the kids. Apparently, she's spanked both her son and this guy's son. Something like that.

I tell him we have books on parenting and childcare.

He keeps going on, talking about how she pulls their underwear off too. And he's asking if like, I think that's okay. I try to remain neutral but advise him, and remind him about books. Because I'm a book associate. Not a counselor or self help line.

A customer comes to the desk. Still on the phone with this guy. I can't ignore him and help this customer, because I won't be able to hear him if *I* start talking. Anyway, eventually I was like... "I can't tell you how to raise your kids, but I can recommend books." or something of that nature. Anyway, the line started beeping, so I guess he got disconnected? I expected him to call back, but nope.

So later in the evening (ya, because THAT wasn't it!), this person (heh) asks if we have Halloween costumes. They mentioned they were going to a club or something. I showed them our limited selection (hey, we're not a costume store or Wal-Mart), and recommend they try Wal-Mart or Kmart.

I figure that's it. So I go back, and start helping a guy in the Science Fiction section. After I think I'm done with him, I go to head back to the book desk again. There's that person again. They say they want to go to a club dressed as a women... and that they aren't really a women.

O_O

Upon first meeting, I thought they WERE a women. A little deep voiced, but heck, I've seen at least one women with a mustache so... slightly manly girls don't really phase me. They put me in the awkward position of asking if I could tell, or something like that, to which I just kind of shrugged and mumbled. HOW DO YOU ANSWER THAT?! Is it a complement if I tell them I thought they were a woman? Is it WEIRD?!

So anyway, he asked if it was obvious. I guess he was asking if it was obvious he was a guy? He said he was self conscious and he thought it was obvious. I was like..."I think you could pull it off." So he was like, "okay" and said thanks or something.

So today was a little weirder than usual. Eyup.

-Tales