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    Some time last month a cw submitted for a patron (who called in) a request for a picture from the newspaper. Normally when people call who want to make a request we tell them to fill out the form online, but seems this person has no internet or email.

    Cw submitted a request for a picture of Pope Benedict XVI that appeared in the newspaper May 12, 2009. So I go make a copy, but either I get the pic and the article and the pic is small or take a copy of just the pic. The request was for a picture, but I had a feeling the patron really wanted the article too. So I make a copy and it looks pretty crappy, so I send a letter to the patron telling her "we mad a copy of the picture, the copy is of poor quality, just so you know." But I make a seperate copy of the pic and article together.

    A week pass and I guess she must have paid for it so I get rid of the extra copy, just to unclutter my workspace.

    On Wed. I receive her payment, a money order. Now luckily the m.o. tells me the date of the newpaper art, because the woman's accompanying letter is a mess.

    First, the woman made her own stationary, which involved stapleing a hand-drawn picture of 3 birds on the bottom of the page, with a stapled copy of the word "Songbird" on the upper right-hand side of the page. So I'm looking at copies of stapled hand-drawn birds and "Songbird".

    On top she wrote the date, "5/8/011 Mothers Day". Note, the date is not a typo on my part, though I wonder if it can also be correct to have the date noted like t hat.

    The body of the letter took me a long time to interprete it, since she also kind of insert things, like the section of the paper. But the first 7 words (except for the "A. P. 3. section, which was inserted right after the word "for") are the only clear thing she wrote (in a combination of cursive and block-printing).

    note, my thoughts are in italics, in parenthesis:

    Please find enclosed money order for A.p.3 section photo as (is that as?) per your letter (note, as per your letter is scratched out heavily) . of mr (note, or pope? it looks like lumps) Benedcit "May 12, 2009 and girls (note, I thought "girls" was "give") in v neck blu uniforms nest to him looking disguated

    I had a copy of it by snickest (or snickers? hard to tell) people (she draws a line to snickers) get out of /lie jailearly oo7 and freedom
    The sign of Jooah came thorugh my house. I only bear witness with truth I am not paid (part?) of it. The is neo sign for any come around go around beings past 666-worst than devil (I first though she wrote "dirt", not devil)
    Thank you blah blah BSOG/4R HOD TROJ.
    PS I dont have email jmadfeasot@gmail (note, email x'd out) no.


    So seemss she wanted an art., not pic, and I tossed the art. so I had to redo it. ugh. I changed her email address, and I substitued her name with "blah blah".
    Last edited by depechemodefan; 05-15-2011, 01:24 AM. Reason: adding
    Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

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  • #2
    ....wow that is just a jumbled mess...
    Hinakiba777- Student of Divinity-Always trying to get laid.

    Annoying student=I pay tuition here so I pay your salary!
    Desk Worker=I pay tuition here, too. So I guess I pay myself.

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    • #3
      that mess would make babelfish cry...
      look! it's ghengis khan!
      Sorry, but while I can do many things, extracting heads from anuses isn't one of them. (so sayeth the irv)

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      • #4
        Quoth chainedbarista View Post
        that mess would make babelfish cry...
        No, that would cause Bablefish to have a mental breakdown and require weeks of intensive treatment and therapy.
        Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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        • #5
          I'm guessing she may be off her meds. There are people who are okay when medicated, but when they're off, for whatever reason, they can write stuff like that. Trouble is, when they're off, the probably don't think they need the meds.

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          • #6
            Quoth depechemodefan View Post

            Please find enclosed money order for A.p.3 section photo as (is that as?) per your letter (note, as per your letter is scratched out heavily) . of mr (note, or pope? it looks like lumps) Benedcit "May 12, 2009 and girls (note, I thought "girls" was "give") in v neck blu uniforms nest to him looking disguated

            I had a copy of it by snickest (or snickers? hard to tell) people (she draws a line to snickers) get out of /lie jailearly oo7 and freedom
            The sign of Jooah came thorugh my house. I only bear witness with truth I am not paid (part?) of it. The is neo sign for any come around go around beings past 666-worst than devil (I first though she wrote "dirt", not devil)
            Thank you blah blah BSOG/4R HOD TROJ.
            PS I dont have email jmadfeasot@gmail (note, email x'd out) no.

            TL;DR

            *filler*

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            • #7
              that looks like a spam message i got once.
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              • #8
                When my grandfather worked for the Secret Service, he'd get all kinds of harmless-but-amusing crazies coming into the office (that email actually sounds like the woman from one of his better stories). Somewhere in the piles of papers we have a three-page scribbled missive that's all kinds of nuts...some conspiracy theory about Nixon and I wouldn't be surprised if aliens got mention as well.
                "I am quite confident that I do exist."
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                • #9
                  If you have a copy of the Emacs text editor, you can probably generate a lot of text like that.

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                  • #10
                    Actually, upon further reflection, I am appreciative of that person eating hallucinogenic mushrooms and writing that letter while tripping balls.

                    That was some good stuff.
                    Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

                    "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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                    • #11
                      I had the piece de resistance but I think a super threw it away. Damn supervisors wanting to treat our nutty patrons with dignity.

                      About 2 years ago a Dr. Rev someone or other wrote to us. I forgot if he pasted a bw pic of himself on the envelope or on his "broshure" but he wanted to sell the library a series of cassette audiotapes of his important speeches. His type written, multi-page stabled "broshure" gave prices for each speech between $30-50. We imagined him to be a quack.
                      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.

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                      • #12
                        My library actually features this kind of thing in the official open to the public suggestion book. So much crazy.

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