Thursday, May 19, 2011

Seriously...Seriously???

So this is how my thursday night went at the library...
Got in and started working on my 80's programme box.  Had awesome conversations with Tiffany B (Our local teen librarian, American buddy, and all around awesome woman). Went for awesome supper with Val (Val is a walking saint of a person, she makes you want to be a better human being) and my hubby to a sushi place.  Came back for 3 more hours of work thinking "I can do this".  The first hour went not too bad especially since I was busy reading up on 7 lb tumors, cows with 3 nostrils and a ram stuck on a wire from Ripley's Believe It or Not.  Myself and two students also pointed out how one of them, more specifically Marta, resembles Sheldon from "Big bang theory".  Then I did some work by completing the 80's box and help customers.  All this time we didn't really have a lot of customers other than the group of children in wheelchairs and their workers who went through out department seeing if it is accessable.  Our evening was going realtively smooth and then at 7:15..just 45 minutes to close, ALL the customers started coming in with difficult questions :)  MY FAVOURITE!!  REALLY??? Why? Did all the OTHER hours of the day not work in any way for you to come in and perhaps get your shit together?  Mind you this is not sooo bad.  Usually they come 10 minutes until closing time.  Last week we had customers who were quite shocked when they came up to the circulation desk and ALL the computers were shut off.  The conversation went something like this... 
Customer:  "You're closed?"
Me:  "Yes, that's why we had the announcements every 5 minutes for the past 15 minutes"
Customer:  "Oh I didn't know that"
Me:  "You have 10 dollars fines on your card"
Customer:  "10 DOLLARS??"
Me:  "Yes..you have to bring it down for you to use your card"
Customer:  "What are they for?"
Me: "Blah blah blah...this and that"
Customer: (to her daughter)  "This is going to come out of your allowance"
Me: *thinking*  Hurry the fuck up...I just want to go home and I don't give two shits about what you're going to do after this.
Customer:  "Here's $2.00"
Me:  "Great...thanks"
I'm just saying....
Tootles
Ewa

2 comments:

  1. how is it that i'm just now realizing you blog!? following now!!!

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  2. Haha...it was on the down lo for a while :) Just entering the blog world full blast and you are my inspiration. xo

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