I don't get people

An older lady walks into the school library today.

She appears to be a sub; it’s busy so I don’t give her a second thought.

She approaches me after a few minutes and asks ““how do I get out of the library?”

Ummm…

“The same way you got in “, I respond.

“You mean through that door?” she points to the main door she stepped through just moments ago.

Not kidding. This is too good to make up.
Are they pulling people off the street for these jobs?

___________________________________________________________________


Another ‘cute’ library moment today. I am sitting at my desk, which has two glass doors infront of me. I am usually tempted to ask “would you like fries with that?” on a daily basis when someone approaches the window.

It usually obstructs my view, but not today.

Directly infront of me, not ten feet a way, a student is sitting and ripping full pages out of a periodical. Just flipping a page—RIP—flip, flip, flip -–RIP.

I don’t even get up and I ask “Is that a current magazine?” The reason I ask this, rather calmly, is because we do have a box of discards that we let the student cut up for projects. The current magazines are not even close to this box and have clear signage that states “PLEASE DO NOT USE THESE MAGAZINES FOR CUT OUTS’’.

She wouldn’t, she couldn’t, would she?

“No”, she states confidently.

“Well”, I say (remaining calm). “Does it have a barcode on the back cover?”

She flips it over and sure enough --- Teen Vogue, May 2009

“Yeah”, I say, “You are going to have to pay for that.”

If you ever have anger management issues, don’t work in a high school library.