"I need help inside the library so let me call the library."

[depechemodefan]

I was answering phone calls from the general public who were calling the library.

Me: (speil)
Idiot: Hi, I'm in the library, and I need to know where you have the books on hold?
Me: what floor are you on.
Idiot: second.
Me: there should be a librarian on the second floor. But the books on hold are kept on the first floor. You know where the computers are on the first floor?
Idiot: yes.
Me: right next to those computers...
Idiot: Oh wait! I know where they are now! I forgot where they were!

*sigh* What would have happened to her if this was 1989 and there were no cheap cell phones? Would she just stood there until security came around and kicked her out at closing? Then of course she would ask for help, and a librarian, ready to go home, will be stuck having to help her, and a person who works Circ. will be stuck checking out the idiot.

[Food Lady]

I think your customers are related to mine, as in too closely related. Seriously, it seems like stupidity, but really, it's laziness.

[JPD]

I will admit to doing that at one point, not in a library, but in wal-mart. I wanted some fabric cut, and I couldn't find any employees in the immediate area, the craft area was also as far from the service desk as it could be in the store, and I had all ready walked all they way over there once and asked them to page somone, and no one came so I called the store and asked if they could page someone to fabric. (it worked)

[MadonnaC]

I have also called a restaurant to ask them if they could send the waiter over to our table

[simplyanother]

Heh, I think it's genius. I've thought of doing it, but don't want to waste the minutes on my pitiful pay as you go phone. Also, I think I'd be in heaven if our library had more than one floor. I'm surprised the customers at Glitter Hell don't do it.

(I was at walmart one night, when some assholes wanted help in the fabric department--and they kept getting on the PA...making obnoxious "we're gonna do it our selves" type announcements. You'd have thought it was an hour, but I think the total time elapsed between the first page --which the customer did and the final bitchbitchwhiiiiiiiiiiiinewhine page was about 6 minutes or so. It was the middle of the night...@@ at them.)