to the hairball customer

[KellyHabersham]

I'm not quite sure how you managed to do this, but thank you soooo much for returning a book today which apparently had a lock of hair in it.......it had fallen onto the floor underneath my chair, and I hadn't realized it was there until the other person in my work area pointed it out. (kind of made me gag, because I have an "ick" thing about hair clumps)

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Ewww...unless it's a lock of a baby's hair (and why would someone put that in a book they returned), it's gross!

[Slave to the Phone]

I used to work at a library. The things that we found in books were amazing. I never found hair, but I did find a wonderful pencil sketch of a cat (which I still have), and money. I once found 7 dimes in a book. One of my coworkers found child porn. The poor guy freaked out and told me that he wanted my dime book while he was talking to the police. The looks I got about my dime book made me laugh so hard that the cops probably thought I had used the drugs.

[blas]

I shed worse than a golden retriever. Well, not quite as bad as my dog, because entire clumps of hair don't fall out at once, but people are always picking at my sleeves and my jacket because stray long blonde hairs are all over just about anywhere you can imagine.

[Marmalady]

Quoth Slave to the Phone

I used to work at a library. The things that we found in books were amazing.

*nods* A friend of mine used to work in a library, and the things that she found (presumably used as bookmarks?) - photos, credit card slips, personal letters.... she said that the most bizarre thing was a rasher of bacon.....

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Quoth blas

I shed worse than a golden retriever. Well, not quite as bad as my dog, because entire clumps of hair don't fall out at once, but people are always picking at my sleeves and my jacket because stray long blonde hairs are all over just about anywhere you can imagine.

You too? I've done that for years and even though I'll try to make sure all the strays aren't clinging to me before I leave out for work, I'll still have a couple or so that I've missed.

I just laugh when Daria - for example - will spot one on me and pick it off.

Yep, definitely the shedding season - just year round.

[KellyHabersham]

The weird thing was, this was not a result of someone "shedding".......not that I closely examined the hair clumps, but it looked more like clippings from someone's hair being cut.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Quoth Marmalady

she said that the most bizarre thing was a rasher of bacon.....

What???? Someone wasted perfectly good BACON on a bookmark???

[Librarybabe]

Lets see, in the 30+ years I've worked in libraries, I've found:
combs
bobbypins, lots of 'em
newspaper clippings
candy wrappers
photographs
cash (once $80 USD; returned to patron
Kotex minipad (unused, thankfully)
pressed flowers
dead spiders
chewing gum (both wrapped & pre-chewed)
raisins
6 in. ruler
paperclips
LIVE COCKROACHES
^edit* I almost forgot the photocopy of rather hairy human male genitalia!

[Pixilated]

This is why I have a huge collection of bookmarks in a basket, LOL. I've used cash as a bookmark as well, although luckily only in books that I owned ... so I did find the money -- eventually.

Also paper clips, bobby pins, etc.

NEVER food, of any sort! And only the outer wrappings of candy bars ...

Someone told me the other day of a guy who used to go to auctions and buy old books by the boxload. He'd stand by the dumpster, turn each book upside-down and shake it. He said it was amazing how much cash he found sometimes -- many of these books came from people who'd grown up during the Depression and still didn't trust banks.

I'm impressed by his ingenuity but rather PO'd that he'd then throw perfectly good books away ...