Monday, January 03, 2005

A woman waits twenty minutes for us to tell her the grammar books are three feet behind her.
Librarian B has a man who needs an email account but he's never used a computer and he has to type up a resume and send it to the the power plant because he knows the plant like the back of his hand. He's going on and on about his lack of computer skills. Poor Librarian B can only nod and smile.
And a twenty-minute series of apologies and thank-you's.
I get a patron who has three days to write an extensive paper on world cultures. It is Librarian B's turn to pity me.
How can her file be Word Perfect when she ONLY uses Microsoft Word?
Carrie, by Stephen King, and Animal Farm, by George Orwell. Interesting reading list ...