What is the one thing you should never ask of a Book Store Employee?

[KellyHabersham]

Thank you. Another head-banger: "Have you read all these books?"

I've gotten that question quite a few times during online conversations, this being when I tell the other person that one of my jobs is at a public library. It's even "better" when they assume that the way staff selects which books we carry is by reading them, or that reading is part of my job duties.

[infinitemonkies]

Ok I'm gonna go way out on a limb here and ask why is this question so bad?

It's like walking into a music store and asking "where is your non-folk music section."

[Taboo]

I actually ask this when I go in.

However, this is because the book store near me has reorganized at least six times in the past two years alone, and the fiction and nonfiction are not always separated - they're on individual shelves, but sometimes there will be a row of fiction, then a row of nonfiction, then another row of fiction.

I can see how it could get annoying, though.