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    So here I am at the library. Guy comes up to me:

    CS: Likes having teeth pulled, ie, teeth
    Me:
    CS2: friend of teeth

    Teeth: I havn't been to the library a long time. Now I need to know if you have a test they give for you to get a job at a petroleum company (something like that).
    Me: We have for the ASVAB (at his wrinkled brow and him slowly speaking it) it's to enter the military, for the GED, for GMAT. WE have general tests but nothing that specific.
    Teeth: Oh, so you don't carry those tests.
    Me: No, but you can go to google and see if you can find a test.
    Teeth: Go to google.
    Me: Yes, it's a search engine. Some people might have taken the test and typed up things about it or posted a test.
    Teeth: Ok, this is the first time I've been her in a long time. What do I do to check out a book?
    Note: When people ask that, usually the answer they want is "how do I get a library card to get a book".
    Me: Do you have a library card?
    Teeth: yes
    Me: ok, you use that to check out a book.
    Teeth: I've havn't been here in a while. How do you check out a book?
    Me: Go to the check-out counter and you can check out a book there.
    Teeth: But the lady said I can go to a machine and check it out
    Note: This is the the teeth-pulling. If someone told him how he can check out books, and tell him he can check out a self-check out machine, then why ask me? Why do people ask again, but in a way that seems they want to trip someone. I don't mind being asked again, and I don't need someone say, "someone already told me but can you clarify/restate?" But they way he asked me, ugh
    Me: Yes, we do have self-check out machines.
    Teeth: How do you use them?
    Me: there are instructions on the screen.

    Teeth: I need...
    Me: ok, let's go to the catalog and find the information.
    I got teeth to do the work. What we find are government documents that are in closed stacks.
    Me: Ok, we can get this, it will take 30 min.
    Teeth: 30 Min.? that's a long time. *raises eye-brows* whine whine whine. Ok, how do I get this?
    Me: write down the call# and the title.
    Teeth: Is it ok I just write down (part of the title)
    Me: no, has to be the whole thing.

    And yep, he wrote it wrong. I sent it as he wrote it down and then I noticed it after I sent it. I had to redo it.

    Anyway, his friend shows up as I'm typing.
    CS2: Hi, do you have a curtesy phone?
    note: they are going to install one, we don't know when
    Me: No, we don't
    CS2: You're the first library I went to that doesn't have a curtesy phone
    Me: We just opened up. We don't have one right now.
    CS2: Well the lady let me use her phone.
    Me: You should go back to the lady then and ask her to use it again.

    I can tell he was still there. I ignored him as I helped Teeth. Teeth was making faces like this was funny. I give Teeth instructions on where the government doc would be. He asked if there would be anyone to help him. Wow, it takes rocket-science to go to the shelf I told him to go to to look for his name. I then tell Teeth how to get on a computer.
    Teeth: That's why I asked you questions. Since I havn't been here in a long time.
    Me: Just go *point* that way, you'll see a bunch of computers you can use them.
    Teeth: They're next to the self-checkout machines?
    Me: No, they are that way (all 61 computers, which is hard to miss)
    SC2: Can I have your name
    Me: It's....What's your name?
    SC2: *he gives it.* Can I have a pen?
    Me: no. We don't have enough pens. We have pencils *point to pencils*
    SC2: Then what are the pens for?
    Me: For the librarians to use.
    SC2: Oh, the librarians use them.
    He and Teeth walk off together.
    Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

    Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

    I wish porn had subtitles.

  • #2
    And they somehow made it to the library without dying.
    Excuse me, good sir paladin, can you direct me to your EVIL district?

    http://www.dywhcomic.com

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    • #3
      Quoth Apathy View Post
      And they somehow made it to the library without dying.
      Did they make it home though? We'll probably never know...
      A PSA, if I may, as well as another.

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      • #4
        Until he comes back in six months time, "I haven't been here for a while...".
        "I can tell her you're all tied up in the projection room." Sunset Boulevard.

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        • #5
          Good grief. I went back to the library for the first time in five YEARS the other day, went right up to the counter and did what I had to do to get a new library card (I'd researched the price and so on online before hand, since I don't technically live IN the city whose library card I wanted to get, even though I can WALK to this library from my house LOL). Then I went right over to the catalogue computers and looked up what I wanted to borrow, followed the *SIGNS* to the appropriate stacks, and then bravely marched up to the self-checkout machines and figured out how to use them. ALL BY MY LONESOME ROFL

          Sad, how some people refuse to do even the simplest things for themselves.
          GK/Kara/Jester fangirl.

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          • #6
            Wow. A whole head-ful of brain, yet not one neuron connects to any other neuron.

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