List: Good things to ask your local bookseller vs. things not to ask your bookseller

Do this:

1. What was your favorite book this year?
2. If you had [insert budget here], what would you buy in the store?
3. I need a gift for a child [insert age and gender here] who likes to read.
4. When is the next book in this series coming out and what should I read until then?
5. This book was put away in the wrong place and I didn't want to put it away wrong as well.

Not this:

1. Do you know the title/author of this book so I can get it off the internet?
2. Can I have your wifi password?
3. Why isn't this out in paperback?
4. I'm here all the time; can you hire me?
5. Why don't you have this book in the store, since I loved it?

Bonus points: Don't tell us we're a dying breed. Say we're all very pretty instead.