Today is Monday!
Comment with your most amusing patron stories from the week! The author of my favorite gets a prize which may or may not come from a bag of things I found while cleaning out the furnace room (library storage areas have the COOLEST STUFF hiding in them...)
-Sarahjeanne
Editor In Chief
Background: I work in a school library
ReplyDelete"Miss Marie?"
"Yes?"
"...sometimes I like to draw people when they aren't looking :D."
"Wanna know a secret? Artists do that all the time."
"One time, I saw the teacher picking her nose. So I drew it."
Technically not from this week, but still cracking me up:
ReplyDeleteGirl, approximately 6 or 7 years old, approaches the youth desk with her arms full of children's DVDs (Tinkerbell and the like).
"What can I help you with?"
"Can you please tell me which ones of these are rated R? I want to watch something scary."
a teenager:
ReplyDelete"what is the library's stance on social networking? may i social network here on your computers?"
me: "network away."
OR--
another teen, who comes to my events: "Hi Kricket. I didn't read any of the books you gave me last time."
thanks, laura. warm fuzzies all over.
This happened while I was subbing in the kids area, which is not my usual job, but I was helping out: A little girl demanded a dark brown crayon from me. Then she came back and insisted the one I gave her wasn't dark enough. I found her another one, and that wasn't dark enough either. I suggested that she try coloring over the dark brown crayon with a black crayon to make it darker. She came back again and told me this hadn't worked. By this point she was getting a little exasperated with me, and I was feeling pretty ineffectual. In the end she decided to go with a nice dark red instead of brown.
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