Those Crazy Customers

• A customers calls our store:
• Customer: I'm looking for the book The *mummbled something or another*
• Me: The what?
• Customer: [Sounds like] The Geeber! The Geeber!
• Me: Do you mean "The Keeper?"
• Customer: No! THE GEEBER! [customer raises voice]
• Me: Could you spell that for me, please?
• Customer: T-H-E
• Me: [Rolling my eyes] Yeah, I got that much.
• Customer: Oh . . . G-E-I-B-E-R.
• Me: [Looking the title up in our computer system wondering what the hell kind of book this is]. I'm sorry, I don't find anything by that title. Who is the author?
• Customer: "Lewis Lawry"
• Me: [Finally realizing what she means] Do you mean "The Giver" by Lois Lowry?
• Customer: [Short silence followed by]: Oh, yeah, that book!
• Me Wanting to Say: You realize you're a G-E-I-B-E-R, right? [Then hang up the phone].