"Can you write down how to spell 'Sabrina' for me on a piece of paper?"
"Sabrina?"
"As in the teenage witch."
A sound from the 600s like someone is throwing up. Coworker: "As much as I don't want to, I'm gonna go investigate that."
'Sabrina' patron: Do you have a pen I can borrow?
Me: Sure, just bring it back when you're done.
Patron: Hmmmmm....no.
Me: I'll pretend I didn't hear that.
Patron: Come on, you should know me by now! I'm just kidding.
I have my arms so far inside the jammed printer it feels like I'm doing surgery.
Patron who is always picking fights with the staff: Personally I don't mind that she is on her phone, but when I've been on my phone I've always been told to get off.
Jaded staff member: We changed the rule.
Patron: I guess rules are changing every day now.
JSM: Yep, I guess they are.
Guy who came up and introduced himself and shook my hand once stops by just to chat, no questions.
There is a guy who has recently made it into my Top 5 Most Disliked Patrons list because he insists that the public computers have all sorts of problems. Every time he comes in (which is most days) he stops by the desk and says something like "I just hope the computers don't have any problems today." I always tell him to show me as soon as he sees a problem so that I can see the error message, but until today he's never actually been willing to do that. He just vaguely describes the problem on his way out. Today for the first time ever he actually shows me an error message! However, he claims that he didn't do anything, it just popped up, and that there is no pattern to when/how frequently the message appears. Two steps forward, one step back.
Do you have a movie...um, gosh. This is going to be hard. I don't know the name. It's with Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, it's set in Detroit. It doesn't have 'vampire' in the name, but it's kind of about vampires?"
Only Lovers Left Alive, 2013, she knows a LOT more than your average patron who doesn't know the title of the item he wants.
Walk past a guy reading the newspaper. He makes eye contact and says hello to me. I say "Hi, did you need some help?" and he responds belligerently with "Help with what?" Sorry sir, usually people don't talk to me as I'm walking around unless they want something.
Get two books out of storage for one of our regulars (he likes a lot of the same books as I do so he's one of my favorites). He points to the two titles he wants on a themed "Great Stand-Alone Sci-Fi" bookmark and it somehow comes out that I created that bookmark. He wants to know, "Oh wow, are you the book sleuth!?"
And, the toughest question of the night: A little girl points to a big cutout of Superman (which we have in keeping with our Every Hero Has a Story summer reading theme)--"Is he real?"
I said most people don't think so, they just like to tell stories about him. Did I do right?
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Every sidekick does not have a story
This year's summer reading theme at our library, and at many other libraries across the country, is "Every hero has a story." A friend and I got all excited about putting on a storytime about sidekicks to fit this theme, but unfortunately, while every hero has a story, sidekicks don't seem to be as well-represented. Can anyone suggest good picture books about sidekicks or hero/sidekick relationships?
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Weekend refgrunt
Today's refgrunt I hope will be a good one. Three different patrons have asked me things about how the library works, which I always like.
The first guy in lets us know that none of the computers have been turned on. We had a program last night which probably caused this, no big deal, we get an excuse to get up and walk around to turn all the machines on, and the guy is a regular who knows enough about computers to just press the power button rather than having a meltdown.
An older black man in a fedora and long coat comes in, dressed in what I think of as 'classic sharply-dressed old black gentleman' style. He asks me where I went to college--Chicago. Oh, that's where he's from! We have a nice thirty seconds of reminiscing, but sadly, he wants to know "If you owe the library a lot of money from a long time ago, what can you do to get that sorted out?"
Teenager: How can I look up books by a particular author?
Phone: How do you place an interlibrary loan?
Help a guy enter his birthdate on a web application. State of Michigan, giving someone a calendar tool that starts on this month, in 2015, is not very helpful for helping someone enter a birthdate!
Lots of phone calls this morning, relatively speaking. Coworker on downstairs desk asks me to check our dumbwaiter (yes, dumbwaiter)--is the door all the way closed? It won't come down.
Excuse me, where's the restroom?
Elevator doors are stuck half-way closed and flailing feebly like a bug that's been stuck on its back for a long time. You can help them by forcing them to open all the way again and letting them start over. I can't wait for the renovation coming in the fall.
I hate all phone calls that start with "Can you please go to w, w, w..." He wants to know about "miniature ultra-sensitive microphones." But his demanded website doesn't have any.
Phone: What version of Office do you have on your computers?
Teach someone how to use the enter key. Second one this week.
Now, how do I indent this? (She doesn't know the term 'indent,' but that's what she's describing).
I need help with printing. Oh no, please don't put that money into the copy machine!
I need help with copying (different woman).
Do you have a bathroom on this floor!?
The elevator is really acting up again.
Checkout desk calls: Patron called about a dropped hold but it's supposed to be on the shelf up there. I can find the other volumes in the series, but not that one. Grr.
Is your romance downstairs? (Oh, romance section!)
Do you have Local True Crime Account? I'm related to that woman. It's in our local history collection so you can't check it out, sorry. That's okay, can you show me where true crime is instead? Yes!
This is embarrassing, but...I don't know how to turn the computer on.
Rude "Can you give me the number for..." guy calls for a local car dealer. He always talks to you as though you're a moron, and I've never heard someone say "thank you" in a less-sincere way.
Help someone with numbered lists in Word.
Downstairs keeps changing their minds about whether our spazzy elevator should be 'out of service' or not, so I keep taking down and then putting up the sign. At one of the times it's up, a man reads it and then asks, "The elevator's out of service?" What did you think "The elevator is out of service" meant?
Do you have a section for oversized books? I did the worst thing you can do with a book you love--I lent it.
I really hate telling poor people that they have to pay for the copies that are their mistakes, but I did show her how to do it and tell her to let me know if she needed more help, so you've got to draw the line somewhere.
Now Numbered Lists needs to print.
Do you have a stapler I can use?
True crime woman comes back--she's decided to put that first book she mentioned on hold after all.
Physician's Desk Reference.
If I give you the name of a vice president, could you tell me when he died? We go through four, all of whom died in the month of November of various years. He is so excited! He says "You are so helpful, and so quick!" (and so full of questions I would like to ask you, sir!)
The elevator is still behaving very oddly.
How would I upload a picture I found online to Facebook?
How do I print some copies? (I hate the copier vs. printer guessing game)
Copier (different patron, first guy wanted to print) is out of legal-sized paper.
A new variation on "Can you watch my stuff?" No, the bathroom being "tiny" doesn't mean we will change our We Will Not Watch Your Stuff policy.
Adorable toddler daughter of my coworker and his wife stop by! Extremely cute! Coworker makes her ask "Miss Emma" if it's okay for him to go downstairs with her and pick out some picture books. For once he'll get the 15-minute break that we are supposedly entitled to, but etiquette says you never get to take on the desk.
The copier is jamming.
Now it's making 8.5x14 copies when a different patron wants 8.5x11. It's starting to compete with the microfilm reader for Least Favorite Machine.
To get on the computer, do I just put my number in?
The woman who didn't want the legal-sized copies says that the news article she is copying is about her son. He wrote a book!
Here's a good question: How do you find out if a family member who died left a life insurance policy? If you were in Michigan, you might want to contact the DIFS OFIR at http://www.michigan.gov/difs/0,5269,7-303-13222_13250-275328--,00.html. Michigan government websites--their links are the worst, but their acronyms are pretty bad too. This question starts off alarming: "Where would I find out about death insurance? Someone or other died and left money to my cousin. This was in 1979..." but it turned out all right, except for the lady whose son wrote a book trying to interrupt to tell me more about it.
The self-check machine is saying I have something overdue. What is it?
Purchase request for the son's book. The only way I could deflect her from telling me about it ad nauseum, and it actually looks like it might be a good fit for our collection.
Brain teasers? Also, how do we get on a computer?
You can't get on the computer because you owe us too much money. They are super rude about it.
Another person, a kid, also can't get on the computer. Her card is expired and she doesn't owe any fines, yet she, like the fine-owers, has to go 'all the way downstairs' to renew her card. She's totally cheerful.
Another phone call from the guy who calls all the time yet thinks we are idiots. He wants to know how to spell "pesticides" and "fertilizer" and keeps asking me if I'm sure I'm telling him the correct spelling. Then he talks to me for about two minutes about how the library should be open until 9 p.m. on Saturdays for 'family hour.' 9-6 like we do now is okay, but I'd really like to have an hour with my own family on Saturday nights. Of course, I don't say that to him.
Someone wants to borrow the book of tax forms, still.
Regular: "You might want to call security in case that gets out of hand." He walks away before I can ask any questions and I can't figure out what the 'that' might be.
How do I change the page color in Word?
Phone number for a bakery...in Los Angeles.
The first guy in lets us know that none of the computers have been turned on. We had a program last night which probably caused this, no big deal, we get an excuse to get up and walk around to turn all the machines on, and the guy is a regular who knows enough about computers to just press the power button rather than having a meltdown.
An older black man in a fedora and long coat comes in, dressed in what I think of as 'classic sharply-dressed old black gentleman' style. He asks me where I went to college--Chicago. Oh, that's where he's from! We have a nice thirty seconds of reminiscing, but sadly, he wants to know "If you owe the library a lot of money from a long time ago, what can you do to get that sorted out?"
Teenager: How can I look up books by a particular author?
Phone: How do you place an interlibrary loan?
Help a guy enter his birthdate on a web application. State of Michigan, giving someone a calendar tool that starts on this month, in 2015, is not very helpful for helping someone enter a birthdate!
Lots of phone calls this morning, relatively speaking. Coworker on downstairs desk asks me to check our dumbwaiter (yes, dumbwaiter)--is the door all the way closed? It won't come down.
Excuse me, where's the restroom?
Elevator doors are stuck half-way closed and flailing feebly like a bug that's been stuck on its back for a long time. You can help them by forcing them to open all the way again and letting them start over. I can't wait for the renovation coming in the fall.
I hate all phone calls that start with "Can you please go to w, w, w..." He wants to know about "miniature ultra-sensitive microphones." But his demanded website doesn't have any.
Phone: What version of Office do you have on your computers?
Teach someone how to use the enter key. Second one this week.
Now, how do I indent this? (She doesn't know the term 'indent,' but that's what she's describing).
I need help with printing. Oh no, please don't put that money into the copy machine!
I need help with copying (different woman).
Do you have a bathroom on this floor!?
The elevator is really acting up again.
Checkout desk calls: Patron called about a dropped hold but it's supposed to be on the shelf up there. I can find the other volumes in the series, but not that one. Grr.
Is your romance downstairs? (Oh, romance section!)
Do you have Local True Crime Account? I'm related to that woman. It's in our local history collection so you can't check it out, sorry. That's okay, can you show me where true crime is instead? Yes!
This is embarrassing, but...I don't know how to turn the computer on.
Rude "Can you give me the number for..." guy calls for a local car dealer. He always talks to you as though you're a moron, and I've never heard someone say "thank you" in a less-sincere way.
Help someone with numbered lists in Word.
Downstairs keeps changing their minds about whether our spazzy elevator should be 'out of service' or not, so I keep taking down and then putting up the sign. At one of the times it's up, a man reads it and then asks, "The elevator's out of service?" What did you think "The elevator is out of service" meant?
Do you have a section for oversized books? I did the worst thing you can do with a book you love--I lent it.
I really hate telling poor people that they have to pay for the copies that are their mistakes, but I did show her how to do it and tell her to let me know if she needed more help, so you've got to draw the line somewhere.
Now Numbered Lists needs to print.
Do you have a stapler I can use?
True crime woman comes back--she's decided to put that first book she mentioned on hold after all.
Physician's Desk Reference.
If I give you the name of a vice president, could you tell me when he died? We go through four, all of whom died in the month of November of various years. He is so excited! He says "You are so helpful, and so quick!" (and so full of questions I would like to ask you, sir!)
The elevator is still behaving very oddly.
How would I upload a picture I found online to Facebook?
How do I print some copies? (I hate the copier vs. printer guessing game)
Copier (different patron, first guy wanted to print) is out of legal-sized paper.
A new variation on "Can you watch my stuff?" No, the bathroom being "tiny" doesn't mean we will change our We Will Not Watch Your Stuff policy.
Adorable toddler daughter of my coworker and his wife stop by! Extremely cute! Coworker makes her ask "Miss Emma" if it's okay for him to go downstairs with her and pick out some picture books. For once he'll get the 15-minute break that we are supposedly entitled to, but etiquette says you never get to take on the desk.
The copier is jamming.
Now it's making 8.5x14 copies when a different patron wants 8.5x11. It's starting to compete with the microfilm reader for Least Favorite Machine.
To get on the computer, do I just put my number in?
The woman who didn't want the legal-sized copies says that the news article she is copying is about her son. He wrote a book!
Here's a good question: How do you find out if a family member who died left a life insurance policy? If you were in Michigan, you might want to contact the DIFS OFIR at http://www.michigan.gov/difs/0,5269,7-303-13222_13250-275328--,00.html. Michigan government websites--their links are the worst, but their acronyms are pretty bad too. This question starts off alarming: "Where would I find out about death insurance? Someone or other died and left money to my cousin. This was in 1979..." but it turned out all right, except for the lady whose son wrote a book trying to interrupt to tell me more about it.
The self-check machine is saying I have something overdue. What is it?
Purchase request for the son's book. The only way I could deflect her from telling me about it ad nauseum, and it actually looks like it might be a good fit for our collection.
Brain teasers? Also, how do we get on a computer?
You can't get on the computer because you owe us too much money. They are super rude about it.
Another person, a kid, also can't get on the computer. Her card is expired and she doesn't owe any fines, yet she, like the fine-owers, has to go 'all the way downstairs' to renew her card. She's totally cheerful.
Another phone call from the guy who calls all the time yet thinks we are idiots. He wants to know how to spell "pesticides" and "fertilizer" and keeps asking me if I'm sure I'm telling him the correct spelling. Then he talks to me for about two minutes about how the library should be open until 9 p.m. on Saturdays for 'family hour.' 9-6 like we do now is okay, but I'd really like to have an hour with my own family on Saturday nights. Of course, I don't say that to him.
Someone wants to borrow the book of tax forms, still.
Regular: "You might want to call security in case that gets out of hand." He walks away before I can ask any questions and I can't figure out what the 'that' might be.
How do I change the page color in Word?
Phone number for a bakery...in Los Angeles.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Why 'everyone has smartphones now, no one needs libraries' is false
I had to show a man how to use the "Enter" key this afternoon.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
(Hip hip) hooray?
The ongoing weirdness of customer service: The guy who I lent a marker to is profusely grateful; the guy who I spent 15 minutes trying to find out the etymology and literal meaning of the expression 'hip hip hooray' for is kind of disappointed that the answer isn't as definitive as he was imagining it would be.
It's not that I 'can't find the answer,' it's that the documentary evidence to prove that a single answer is correct just isn't there. I'm sorry.
It's not that I 'can't find the answer,' it's that the documentary evidence to prove that a single answer is correct just isn't there. I'm sorry.
Friday, May 15, 2015
I know you'll miss me...
...but your aim will get better!" is one of the jokes that one of our regulars told me today. He's a substitute teacher, and he was telling me what he learned from third graders this week. I asked him how he was and he said, "Can't complain...no one would listen."
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Recovery refgrunt
After the last two posts (especially the last one) this blog has to have something more cheerful. There'd better be some funny reference questions today.
Man who's arrived promptly at 9: "Where are the free comics?" This question isn't as odd as it sounds; it is Free Comic Book Day today, after all.
Patron: Can you show me some books about Microsoft Word? I need to pass this test.
Me: Sure! [shows her a shelf full of Word books]
Patron [picking up a book from the shelf below about Excel]: What about this one? Do you think this is a good one?
Weird guy who teaches the citizenship class wants to know if he can keep his two-liter bottle of Mountain Dew in the staff fridge. Nope. Probably not even if you hadn't been so rude to me when I was a new employee.
Phone call for contact information for a small press. He wants to buy one of their book series. This guy is a regular caller and is super-nice, but he always wants to tell you at length about how get this week's book is and why you should read it, and they are all nutty. This week's selection is Anastasia.
Restroom?
Travel books? China?
China Travel comes back--"There's a white-haired lady coming up too. My wife. Could you just....shoot her back toward that corner [where the travel section is]? Great!"
Me to white-haired lady: "Looking for your husband, by any chance?" (She was, fortunately. Hope China Travel was he.)
Can I check this out downstairs or do I have to check it out here [on the second floor]?
Trade a patron a nickel for five of her pennies since the copier won't take the latter.
"I'm looking for the men's, uh...facility." (bathroom, not jail.)
"Do you have a twin? The young lady at the [unintelligible, sounded like 'car park'] looks just like you! I thought I was in Inception!"
Bathroom again.
Security guard drops by--apparently someone clogged the toilet in the downstairs men's bathroom with loose tobacco and rolling papers, so it's closed. That explains a lot (in a way).
Materials for studying for the medical assisting exam? Books are all checked out, but we have an online course!
Slow cooker cookbooks? Sewing? Wow, this is a big library.
Do you have a pen I can have? I have a pen you can borrow. No, do you have an extra one that I can keep? No, we don't give them away, sorry.
From my desk I have a good view of the print release station, so I know when to leap up and intervene when someone is getting a "no jobs for this user at this terminal" error message. It's hard to find a way to say "It didn't print because you never hit the 'print' button" that doesn't make someone feel stupid.
Yes, the printer will make change for your quarter.
OMG! Earthquake! Ben the security guard and I have a nonverbal exchange from across the room: "WTF was that?/I don't know/me either/I'm Googling it right now." Lots of the patrons look around/at me, but no one freaks out, luckily. The main earthquake tracker website's page for our area is down, suggesting that we aren't the only ones who felt it.
Odd patron comes up to the desk: "Do you make change for a dollar?"
Less odd patron comes up to the desk--"Did I really just feel that?"
Phone call which I am 99% sure will be "Did an earthquake just happen!?" but she just wants to know if we have a subscription to Ancestry.com.
Phone call: Did Princess Kate have her baby? (Yes!)
Is there someone here who can help me with my Kindle?
Unfortunately, fifteen minutes of investigation reveal that her problem is that she's forgotten the password to her Kindle account, and that I can't help with.
While I'm helping the woman with the Kindle, the BBC Farsi Man comes up. Patrons, especially patrons who have communication challenges, often pick a preferred library staff member because that person can rely on their history for a lot of clues about what they're trying to say. I'm the chosen librarian of BBC Farsi Man. This is the first time I've ever seen him be rude--he's annoyed that my colleague helps him and won't interrupt me so that I can help him.
Finally a phone call about the earthquake. I've had this tab lurking open for ages and I can finally use it!
Any more City tax forms? Sorry, we're out of ones you can take for free. You can photocopy our reference copy, though.
Oh no. I told the earthquake caller that the magnitude was 4.0, but now I see it's been upgraded to a 4.2!
We have a system where the person on the left hand ref desk answers the phone and the person on the right hand desk answers email reference. Someone's written in to complain about the limited functionality of our public computers but hasn't supplied a return email address. Coworker grumbles--"If they're not going to tell me who they are, I'm not going to forward it onto the help desk. Just kidding."
No, I can't tell you if the dosage of Klonopin prescribed to your friend by her doctor is too high, sorry. Would you like general information about what WebMD and the Mayo Clinic says about dosage guidelines that is absolutely not medical advice in any way? Good.
Can I check out books here?
Nice middle- or high-school aged girl wants CDs to help her Arabic-speaking mom learn English and study for the citizenship test. "I was like, 'mom, just go to the library and see what they have!' but she didn't want to so I thought I would get some for her." Awww!
Girl comes back: Oh, can she have some dream interpretation books too? This is the only time I've ever cheerfully shown someone the dream interpretation books.
Someone has one of those mylar helium balloons with them at the computer.
Loud Background Noise woman calls for three addresses--only one of the people is our database. Bummer.
Ben from security asks us to give him the info of the guy using computer 39. Pornography? (ick.)
Do you have the book My Story by Elizabeth Smart? Yes we do!
Do you have any books on institutional chaplaincy? No, sorry.
Can I buy some headphones?
I need the book 'Levine.'
Is that the person who wrote it?
Yes.
Hm. Do you know the person's first name?
You know, Mr. Bean.
Ohhhhh, okay. I'm afraid he doesn't have a book.
DVD?
Yes. That would be downstairs.
Okay!
BBC Farsi Man asks me to write down the (English) name of the video he's watching. He can see he's almost out of computer time and he wants to be able to find it again tomorrow. Smart!
When does the new Star Wars movie come out?
Well, we close in ten minutes. Goodnight!
Man who's arrived promptly at 9: "Where are the free comics?" This question isn't as odd as it sounds; it is Free Comic Book Day today, after all.
Patron: Can you show me some books about Microsoft Word? I need to pass this test.
Me: Sure! [shows her a shelf full of Word books]
Patron [picking up a book from the shelf below about Excel]: What about this one? Do you think this is a good one?
Weird guy who teaches the citizenship class wants to know if he can keep his two-liter bottle of Mountain Dew in the staff fridge. Nope. Probably not even if you hadn't been so rude to me when I was a new employee.
Phone call for contact information for a small press. He wants to buy one of their book series. This guy is a regular caller and is super-nice, but he always wants to tell you at length about how get this week's book is and why you should read it, and they are all nutty. This week's selection is Anastasia.
Restroom?
Travel books? China?
China Travel comes back--"There's a white-haired lady coming up too. My wife. Could you just....shoot her back toward that corner [where the travel section is]? Great!"
Me to white-haired lady: "Looking for your husband, by any chance?" (She was, fortunately. Hope China Travel was he.)
Can I check this out downstairs or do I have to check it out here [on the second floor]?
Trade a patron a nickel for five of her pennies since the copier won't take the latter.
"I'm looking for the men's, uh...facility." (bathroom, not jail.)
"Do you have a twin? The young lady at the [unintelligible, sounded like 'car park'] looks just like you! I thought I was in Inception!"
Bathroom again.
Security guard drops by--apparently someone clogged the toilet in the downstairs men's bathroom with loose tobacco and rolling papers, so it's closed. That explains a lot (in a way).
Materials for studying for the medical assisting exam? Books are all checked out, but we have an online course!
Slow cooker cookbooks? Sewing? Wow, this is a big library.
Do you have a pen I can have? I have a pen you can borrow. No, do you have an extra one that I can keep? No, we don't give them away, sorry.
From my desk I have a good view of the print release station, so I know when to leap up and intervene when someone is getting a "no jobs for this user at this terminal" error message. It's hard to find a way to say "It didn't print because you never hit the 'print' button" that doesn't make someone feel stupid.
Yes, the printer will make change for your quarter.
OMG! Earthquake! Ben the security guard and I have a nonverbal exchange from across the room: "WTF was that?/I don't know/me either/I'm Googling it right now." Lots of the patrons look around/at me, but no one freaks out, luckily. The main earthquake tracker website's page for our area is down, suggesting that we aren't the only ones who felt it.
Odd patron comes up to the desk: "Do you make change for a dollar?"
Less odd patron comes up to the desk--"Did I really just feel that?"
Phone call which I am 99% sure will be "Did an earthquake just happen!?" but she just wants to know if we have a subscription to Ancestry.com.
Phone call: Did Princess Kate have her baby? (Yes!)
Is there someone here who can help me with my Kindle?
Unfortunately, fifteen minutes of investigation reveal that her problem is that she's forgotten the password to her Kindle account, and that I can't help with.
While I'm helping the woman with the Kindle, the BBC Farsi Man comes up. Patrons, especially patrons who have communication challenges, often pick a preferred library staff member because that person can rely on their history for a lot of clues about what they're trying to say. I'm the chosen librarian of BBC Farsi Man. This is the first time I've ever seen him be rude--he's annoyed that my colleague helps him and won't interrupt me so that I can help him.
Finally a phone call about the earthquake. I've had this tab lurking open for ages and I can finally use it!
Any more City tax forms? Sorry, we're out of ones you can take for free. You can photocopy our reference copy, though.
Oh no. I told the earthquake caller that the magnitude was 4.0, but now I see it's been upgraded to a 4.2!
We have a system where the person on the left hand ref desk answers the phone and the person on the right hand desk answers email reference. Someone's written in to complain about the limited functionality of our public computers but hasn't supplied a return email address. Coworker grumbles--"If they're not going to tell me who they are, I'm not going to forward it onto the help desk. Just kidding."
No, I can't tell you if the dosage of Klonopin prescribed to your friend by her doctor is too high, sorry. Would you like general information about what WebMD and the Mayo Clinic says about dosage guidelines that is absolutely not medical advice in any way? Good.
Can I check out books here?
Nice middle- or high-school aged girl wants CDs to help her Arabic-speaking mom learn English and study for the citizenship test. "I was like, 'mom, just go to the library and see what they have!' but she didn't want to so I thought I would get some for her." Awww!
Girl comes back: Oh, can she have some dream interpretation books too? This is the only time I've ever cheerfully shown someone the dream interpretation books.
Someone has one of those mylar helium balloons with them at the computer.
Loud Background Noise woman calls for three addresses--only one of the people is our database. Bummer.
Ben from security asks us to give him the info of the guy using computer 39. Pornography? (ick.)
Do you have the book My Story by Elizabeth Smart? Yes we do!
Do you have any books on institutional chaplaincy? No, sorry.
Can I buy some headphones?
I need the book 'Levine.'
Is that the person who wrote it?
Yes.
Hm. Do you know the person's first name?
You know, Mr. Bean.
Ohhhhh, okay. I'm afraid he doesn't have a book.
DVD?
Yes. That would be downstairs.
Okay!
BBC Farsi Man asks me to write down the (English) name of the video he's watching. He can see he's almost out of computer time and he wants to be able to find it again tomorrow. Smart!
When does the new Star Wars movie come out?
Well, we close in ten minutes. Goodnight!
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