The Diary of a Bookseller

MONDAY, 28 APRIL

Online orders: 4

Books found: 4

Shortly after I opened the shop there was a telephone call about a book that a customer had ordered online. It arrived on Saturday, and she wasn’t happy about it because the last five pages were torn: ‘I’ve got a thing about books with torn pages, they give me the creeps. Can I return it?’ I reluctantly agreed to let her send it back for a refund.

At 4.30 p.m. a man with a moustache and a baseball cap asked, ‘You don’t sell books, do you?’ then laughed uproariously.

Till total £92.96

13 customers