The other day....

I'm going to call the following patron Amy. I doubt her name is actually Amy, but you know how some people just look like they should have a certain name...? Yeah.

Anyway, Amy just came to get those books... you know, the ones you had sitting behind the desk for me? From a few days ago?

Well, actually, that was about 2 months ago and we have since reshelved them.

Oh, well, can you just tell me where they are?

Sure, but you'll have to remind me what books they were (because I do not have a super-human memory).

Well, they were blue or green... and there were two of them.

Oh, I see -- and what were they about?

I was looking up definitions.

So, dictionaries? I took Amy to the dictionaries in the reference section and there was, lo and behold, a matching set of blue and green dictionaries (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, to be exact).

Oh, those aren't the right ones. I remember they were a couple of shelves over.

Hmmm, well that's interesting, since there aren't any dictionaries a couple of shelves over. But okay, let's go look over there for kicks.

Amy decided that we still had the wrong books picked out but that they would work "okay."