During the years I worked in a bookstore we often heard some variation on "I'm looking for this book about a hairdresser, or maybe it was a dentist- it has a blue cover. Do you have it?" The scary thing was that sometimes I knew the book that was wanted! I also worked for a while at a very large fabric store, and would have to cope with telephone questions along the lines of " I have a suit and I need matching fabric to replace the skirt.It's red, well, kind of burgundy, wool, you know that color; do you have it in stock?"!!!!!

Personally, the most annoying question was one I heard several times while I was pregnant. "Oh, you are going to have a baby. Was it planned?" (Of course, I'm going to stand here in the post office and discuss my sex life!)I never had the nerve to smile sweetly and say that my husband didn't want the chid, and I was trying to decide whether to leave him or jump off a roof, thanks for asking, but I thought about it.