This freshman with super bad runny nose comes to the desk and asks, "How do you print?" I told him the process for few seconds but interrupts me, "It doesn't work. Nothing works!" As he goes on for another minute about how he couldn't print and so on, all I could think about was that he didn't sound very educated at all. I wanted to tell him to wipe his nose first before continuing but I didn't tell him that.
He finally says something about having to have money on your card to print and complains about not being able to just print with his money. I tell him that he can put money on his card to print but he says, "Yeah, but the assignment was due 20 minutes ago!" OK dude, why the heck are you here complaining then? I could see a girl on a computer behind him just laughing and I couldn't help but kind of laugh. I finally tell him that it's not a big deal and that he should just talk to his professor and she will understand.
I love patrons with runny nose.
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On a different note, I realized that I am consumed by my job. The way I answer people's questions about books and research is based on the library databases. For example, few weeks ago, my roommate asked me if I had the Hunger Games (or a question like that) and I told him that the library has them but they are all checked out. He definitely didn't ask me if the library had them. I work at the library way too much.
You know you work at a library when you answer people's questions with services that the library provides.
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| One day, I will try this |
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