Well I ran my own business for 20 years so going into a store and asking is not something the bothers me in the least. There are many other Daw book on these same store shelves so it just seemed really odd to me that none of Kate's could be found.Perhaps she is just so popular that they were sold out?
As for someone thinking I am some fool for wanting to read a book, any book, the way I see it they are in the business of selling books so they had best not do that. If they did, I would then ask to see the manager straight away and find out why they had this person working there. And if they were the manager I'd then say something like "Well I guess you sell so many books that you can scorn your customers when they come to buy?" Then I would tell about them the other stores that I would be buying books at from now on.
Rahl