Librarian is the new Postal

Dec 30, 2008

{ Happy Holidays }

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The holidays really bring out the best in people. Last week there was a special-needs group in from one of the local schools. They were performing in the library lobby, doing holiday songs on Hand Bells. There were chairs set up, and a crowd of about a dozen people were sitting listening to them. Over at the service desk I was enjoying hearing the soothing sound of bells in the library, even if the songs weren’t always recognizable. A man walked up to my desk. He had an unlit cigarette hanging from his lip and had apparently just been kicked off his computer. He wanted to make a complaint:

“They won’t let me talk on the computers but they’ll let kids play with bells in the library? What the hell kind of policy is that?”

Happy Holidays!

Labels: assholes, hand bells, holidays, Library

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Dec 3, 2008

{ how insulting }

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To the teens who defaced the table in the teen corner:

To use such a mundane insult is insulting only to your own intelligence. Fuck has a "C" in it. Honkie only has one "O." See me at the reference desk for much more interesting insults than “fuck you bitch ass honkie” that will impress your friends and thoroughly disgust your teachers. See: Shakespeare. See also: Monty Python.

Kids these days..... I’m just not impressed.

Labels: cussing, defacement, insults, kids, Library, teens

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Dec 2, 2008

{ it's all relative }

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It’s all relative. If you focus on the people who are throwing temper tantrums because they have to wait to get on a computer when nobody is sitting at THAT one, you’ll go postal. But, at the same time there is a little boy jumping up and down at my desk in excitement because he just read Monster Blood (Goosebumps), and he wants to do it for his school project, and he wants me to find out who did the cover illustrations. If I focus on him, it’s a good evening.

Labels: book report, computers, Goosebumps, Monster Blood, tantrum

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