All in a Day's Work Part II

Today I had a fantastic conversation with a lady, who was probably in her early sixties that went like this:

Me: (Observing this lady looking for something in the sports section) "Can I help you?"

Lady: "Yes, where are your books on running?" 

(I show her where they are and ask her if she wants a particular book)

Lady: "Yeah, it's a book about running with the words 'Holy Cost' in the title."

Me: "Holy cost?"

Lady: "Yeah, you know about the camps in Germany where people died."

Me: (Trying not to laugh) "Do you mean 'holocaust'?"

(At this point one of my co-workers standing near me had to walk away because he was busting up laughing.)

Lady: "Yeah that's it! Holocaust. It's a book about running in the holy cost."

(I loved how she reverted right back to 'Holy Cost' after I explained what the correct word was. In my mind I'm thinking there is NO WAY she wants a book about physical fitness in concentration camps, but she insisted that's what the book was.)

I looked up the words 'running' and 'holocaust' in our computer system and came up with the book Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust. I tell the customer the name of the book.

Lady: "Yes that's it. It's about the sport of running isn't it?"

Me: "No. It's about a woman that poses as a gentile woman to avoid being sent to a death camp."

Lady: "So there's nothing about running or marathons in it?"

Me: (Thumping sound of me banging my head against the desk)

Sigh......