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two stories.
First, the docent doesn't show up. I don't even know if she bothered to call in. Granted, this is Houston, and we had a lot of rain this morning (ie, the cars are floating down the feeder) but by 12 it was pretty dried up.
Anyway, that meant me working the front.
First guy comes up behind me and puts his water from the courtesy cup from McDonalds on the desk. He is making some type of noise, and grabbing his throat so I ask if he needed me to call 911. Finally something semi-intelligent comes out of him, "phone" so I told him we have no public phone. He keeps on chocking out "phone".
So he is getting louder and he finally gets the attention of the cop who is working overtime at the library. The cop offers to make the call for him on his (cop's) cell, but outside. The guy gets all flustered and waves off the cop and goes toward the computers.
Then 5 min. latter he makes a racket at the coffee bar inside the library. Really loud rackett. So the cop leads him off outside, and gets the number of whoever the guy was trying to call and uses our phone (which I'm ok with) . The cop discribes the person to who answers the phone and tells the person on the other line to come pick him up or he has to put him in jail for causing a disturbance.
The other story.
security=se
cop=cop
cranky woman=sc
me=
A woman comes up to me and wants to know if we found a cell phone. Since we give any lost items to security I get her to talk to security. Lost items are usually kept in the security office. Security leads the woman back to my station. Security starts talking to the cop.
se: this woman lost her phone.
cop: does she want to make a report?
se: she said she lost it here in the libary, and she thinks someone stole it...
sc: my friend keeps on callin' ma phone, an' someone keeps answerin' and hangin' up.
cop: ok, tell me where you were when you lost it.
sc: why are you giving me this run-around? Just find out if security office has it!
cop: *looking at se* did you check if the office has it?
se: no.
cop: ok, check with the security office first. If it's not there, see if she wants to do a report or what does she want to do.
Yeah, I really don't know why the woman talked back to the cop. He was only going with what the security was telling her. Security should have looked to her security office if it was returned.
First, the docent doesn't show up. I don't even know if she bothered to call in. Granted, this is Houston, and we had a lot of rain this morning (ie, the cars are floating down the feeder) but by 12 it was pretty dried up.
Anyway, that meant me working the front.
First guy comes up behind me and puts his water from the courtesy cup from McDonalds on the desk. He is making some type of noise, and grabbing his throat so I ask if he needed me to call 911. Finally something semi-intelligent comes out of him, "phone" so I told him we have no public phone. He keeps on chocking out "phone".
So he is getting louder and he finally gets the attention of the cop who is working overtime at the library. The cop offers to make the call for him on his (cop's) cell, but outside. The guy gets all flustered and waves off the cop and goes toward the computers.
Then 5 min. latter he makes a racket at the coffee bar inside the library. Really loud rackett. So the cop leads him off outside, and gets the number of whoever the guy was trying to call and uses our phone (which I'm ok with) . The cop discribes the person to who answers the phone and tells the person on the other line to come pick him up or he has to put him in jail for causing a disturbance.
The other story.
security=se
cop=cop
cranky woman=sc
me=
A woman comes up to me and wants to know if we found a cell phone. Since we give any lost items to security I get her to talk to security. Lost items are usually kept in the security office. Security leads the woman back to my station. Security starts talking to the cop.
se: this woman lost her phone.
cop: does she want to make a report?
se: she said she lost it here in the libary, and she thinks someone stole it...
sc: my friend keeps on callin' ma phone, an' someone keeps answerin' and hangin' up.
cop: ok, tell me where you were when you lost it.
sc: why are you giving me this run-around? Just find out if security office has it!
cop: *looking at se* did you check if the office has it?
se: no.
cop: ok, check with the security office first. If it's not there, see if she wants to do a report or what does she want to do.
Yeah, I really don't know why the woman talked back to the cop. He was only going with what the security was telling her. Security should have looked to her security office if it was returned.