Disappearing books

Two of us went to a book store and had a look around in the Christian section. We saw a controversial book on the rack that teaches a lot of “Christian” nonsense which is completely unbiblical. We asked one of the guys there how many of these books they sell per week and he mentioned that they sell at least 2 every day (which means about a minimum of 14 in a week). We felt we should pray that people would become blinded to this book and not buy it. In total, there were about 15 of these books on the shelf and so we make a very small marking on the price tags of the books so that we can check next week and see how many books were sold and if it was less than normal.

The next week I went back to the shops and checked whether any of the books were sold. I couldn’t find the books and thought that they must have all been sold out (there were only 15 last week and with them selling 2 a day, it’s likely that they sold all of them). I asked a guy working there if they had the book in store. He checked on the system and said they have 15 in stock. He went to show me where to find the books. He couldn’t find them and so with a confused look he said that he would check the backroom to see if for some reason they were put in there. He couldn’t find it there either and eventually he gave up looking for the books, apologized to me saying that they definitely have stock, but for some odd reason he can’t seem to find the books. That’s when I realised that if they have 15 in stock it meant that not a single book was sold during the week and these books had mysteriously “hidden” themselves that even the employees of the book store could not find them.