In Which Directions Are Misheard
This conversation JUST HAPPENED between a patron, a colleague and me at the reference desk on the third floor.
Patron: Do you know where the DVDs are?
Colleague: They’re on the first floor.
Patron: Fifth?
Me: No, Level One.
Patron: Haha, I thought you said “first” and then I realized you said “fifth.”
Colleague: Um, what? No—
Patron (heads over to elevator)
Me: …aaaand she’s going up.
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January 24th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
That is hilarious. There are a few nuggets of joy that come from having to deal with customers*.
* – You call them patrons, some call them clients– the people that make it so the doors stay open. I chose “customers” to apply to more settings than libraries. I don’t want my meaning to be misconstrued– I don’t dislike customers, I’m just not personally gifted at interacting with them. Why should the footnote be longer than the original comment? You can mark this as spam if you want.
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January 24th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Ha! What’s even funnier than that? Your system auto-marked it spam!
January 24th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Argh, I’m sorry, Ethan. I’m not sure what’s up with my comment-spam plugins.
And dealing with the public is a strange, dizzy rollercoaster ride. And some days it never seems to end. :P
January 24th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
No worries man. Given the last sentence of my first reply, I seriously lol’d (l’d ol?) when it went ahead and did it. :) Software is finicky.
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January 24th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
haha, I thought you said “level one”, but then I realised you said “fifth”.
Craig’s last blog post..goddamned