A man asks: Does your sister work here?
Me: No, I think I just have one of those faces. People are always asking me if I go to their same church and stuff.
Man: Seriously!? Me too, actually! Three times already this morning I've
had people ask if they know me from somewhere. I'm 51, so I don't think
I went to school with you, sir...
I told him I was excited to meet another person like me.
Later as I was passing the area where he was sitting, he held out his fist for a fist bump.
A kid asks me for help figuring out 15x12 (I show him a trick my dad
taught me, that 15x12 is the same as 10x12 and 5x12 added together).
Same kid, later:
Hi...[grabs a piece of scrap paper]...bye!
I have to tell about 50 disappointed families that tonight's storytime
is cancelled (our usual presenter and our backup are BOTH out sick, and I
could do it, but only if we wanted to just leave the reference desk
unstaffed all night). They are all so nice about
it and I can't tell if that's better or worse than people being crabby.
A break up a study-room-related incident that has escalated to one
patron threatening to sue the other for assault (don't worry, no one was
actually hurt).
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