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I work until 8pm on Tues. I can't remember much what happened before 6pm, though obviously I should have had a foreboding sense of doom...
Praise Ya, all you people
An elderly lady calls, wanting to know where in the bible it says, "Praise Ya, you people." I google it, and I find the phrase "Praise Yaweh, you people." And something about Hallelujah. I do not find the phrase in Bible Gateway. I had a feeling that if I try to explain to her the Wikipedia entry of Hallelujah to her, she will get confused after the third word, so I tell her that it's not in the bible.
bomb treat
yes, someone calls the library (twice!, a min. in between) to tell us there is a bomb in the library. So we leave, though of course some patrons take there time to pack up. It's maybe 6:45.
We have to wait in a park across the street. Some time latter a guy goes to the drop off box and parks his car and walks toward us. I am shooting daggers at him since his stupid car is blocking the drop box. He has some dvds and of course there is a sign that he can't drop them in the drop box. He of course doesn't want to get a fine for putting it in the drop box (of course, he doesn't care that they might get damaged). I tell him to move his car but a cw I hate coldly tells me "he is asking us if he can drop off the dvds." He doesn't want to come back tomorrow, because "I have things to do." so anyway, a cw tells him he can drop the dvds in the drop box so he decides to write a freakin' novel, attaches it to a dvd, saying that he was told he can drop off the dvds in the drop box.
Guy still does not see that blocking the drop box inconvience others.
At 8pm we are allowed back in, and the next day we find out a person with a Florida area code called in the threat.
He's keeping his mouth clean
Then there was the day I was standing in front of an elevator, which happens to be in front of the men's room on the third floor. I see a man comging around the corner and his mouth is foaming. I finally realise he is brushing his teeth. I tell him he can't brush his teeth in the library and he says ok. He then goes into the bathroom.
I call security and the guy gets out of the bathroom. He goes to the desk he was at. He left some books there, which the cw I hate had picked up. He complains to her she took his books, she tells him she isn't a mind reader, she coudln't have known he was reading those books, and he said she should have known because he left the pages open.
He then leaves before security gets to the third floor.
The man loves his chicken
A female cw asks a male cw to go to the men's bathroom, see if anyone is eating chicken in there. Yep, a guy is eating fried chicken in a stall. When he heard my cw walk in, he stopped eating, but after a while, starts eating but pops his head up over the stall. CW tells him he can't eat in the library and the guy says ok. I doubt this man will stop eating in the library. Also, ew, eating in the bathroom.
Man wants a phone number; it would help if he knew the right name of the place
an idiot calls:
idiot: I need the number to People's Trust Bank.
me: *uses computer skills, can't find anything with that name. Look in phone book, don't see that name but sees "People's Trust Credit Union"* ok, you said "People's Trust Bank".
idiot: that's right.
me: There's no People's Trust Bank. There is a People's Trust Credit Union. Do you mean that?
idiot: yeah.
me: next time, have the correct name or we can't find things. The number is....
I am yelling at you because you found my answer!!!!
This is the next call
One day a guy calls and asks me to look up a website:
(itlalics are my thoughts)
SC: go to myauctionhouse.com and let me know when there is an auction.
me: *uses computer skills* great, I bet I will find the auction and he will get mad at me because I couldn't read his mind to know he meant "an auction on 1974 World Series baseball cards and coke bottlesok, the next auction is Wed.
SC: *angry* Well I called yesterday and they said they can't find the website!!!!!!
me: maybe you gave the wrong website.
SC: What! You saying that you guys can't make a mistake?!?!?!
me: I don't know why people call here....
SC: *hangs up!
me: yeah, because a customer never makes a mistake
It's not the end of the month but I'm betting more will happen.
Praise Ya, all you people
An elderly lady calls, wanting to know where in the bible it says, "Praise Ya, you people." I google it, and I find the phrase "Praise Yaweh, you people." And something about Hallelujah. I do not find the phrase in Bible Gateway. I had a feeling that if I try to explain to her the Wikipedia entry of Hallelujah to her, she will get confused after the third word, so I tell her that it's not in the bible.
bomb treat
yes, someone calls the library (twice!, a min. in between) to tell us there is a bomb in the library. So we leave, though of course some patrons take there time to pack up. It's maybe 6:45.
We have to wait in a park across the street. Some time latter a guy goes to the drop off box and parks his car and walks toward us. I am shooting daggers at him since his stupid car is blocking the drop box. He has some dvds and of course there is a sign that he can't drop them in the drop box. He of course doesn't want to get a fine for putting it in the drop box (of course, he doesn't care that they might get damaged). I tell him to move his car but a cw I hate coldly tells me "he is asking us if he can drop off the dvds." He doesn't want to come back tomorrow, because "I have things to do." so anyway, a cw tells him he can drop the dvds in the drop box so he decides to write a freakin' novel, attaches it to a dvd, saying that he was told he can drop off the dvds in the drop box.
Guy still does not see that blocking the drop box inconvience others.
At 8pm we are allowed back in, and the next day we find out a person with a Florida area code called in the threat.
He's keeping his mouth clean
Then there was the day I was standing in front of an elevator, which happens to be in front of the men's room on the third floor. I see a man comging around the corner and his mouth is foaming. I finally realise he is brushing his teeth. I tell him he can't brush his teeth in the library and he says ok. He then goes into the bathroom.
I call security and the guy gets out of the bathroom. He goes to the desk he was at. He left some books there, which the cw I hate had picked up. He complains to her she took his books, she tells him she isn't a mind reader, she coudln't have known he was reading those books, and he said she should have known because he left the pages open.
He then leaves before security gets to the third floor.
The man loves his chicken
A female cw asks a male cw to go to the men's bathroom, see if anyone is eating chicken in there. Yep, a guy is eating fried chicken in a stall. When he heard my cw walk in, he stopped eating, but after a while, starts eating but pops his head up over the stall. CW tells him he can't eat in the library and the guy says ok. I doubt this man will stop eating in the library. Also, ew, eating in the bathroom.
Man wants a phone number; it would help if he knew the right name of the place
an idiot calls:
idiot: I need the number to People's Trust Bank.
me: *uses computer skills, can't find anything with that name. Look in phone book, don't see that name but sees "People's Trust Credit Union"* ok, you said "People's Trust Bank".
idiot: that's right.
me: There's no People's Trust Bank. There is a People's Trust Credit Union. Do you mean that?
idiot: yeah.
me: next time, have the correct name or we can't find things. The number is....
I am yelling at you because you found my answer!!!!
This is the next call
One day a guy calls and asks me to look up a website:
(itlalics are my thoughts)
SC: go to myauctionhouse.com and let me know when there is an auction.
me: *uses computer skills* great, I bet I will find the auction and he will get mad at me because I couldn't read his mind to know he meant "an auction on 1974 World Series baseball cards and coke bottlesok, the next auction is Wed.
SC: *angry* Well I called yesterday and they said they can't find the website!!!!!!
me: maybe you gave the wrong website.
SC: What! You saying that you guys can't make a mistake?!?!?!
me: I don't know why people call here....
SC: *hangs up!
me: yeah, because a customer never makes a mistake
It's not the end of the month but I'm betting more will happen.
And my sister wonders why I never check books out at the library here.
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