Power Cut

I was kneeling in front of the Ancient History shelves in the Cinema Bookshop, trying to get some sort of sense into the shelving of the books, when all the lights went off.
For some minutes, I could hear people moving slowly and carefully from the back of the shop, a bit like a very undramatic Poseidon Adventure. After all, it was a Cinema - there aren't a lot of windows!
The power was off for an hour, all over Hay. Some people were blaming the workmen who are re-fitting Spar, but this could just be a scurrilous rumour. One old chap said that he'd gone all through the Second World War in Swansea, and the power had never failed once!

Whoever put the books out originally must have had no idea about ancient history (the Anglo-Saxons really shouldn't be under Prehistory), but the funniest mistake was in the Ancient Greek section, where I found The Wooden Horse. Full marks to the shelver for knowing about the wooden horse at the gates of Troy - not so many points for not knowing that the book was about tunnelling out of a prisoner of war camp in World War Two!