ME— Can I help you?
WHISPERING FEMALE PATRON— (Nearly inaudible) I had some prints.
ME— I'm sorry?
WFP— (Even less audible) I had some prints.
ME— Prints?
WFP— (Nods)
(I go and fetch the prints.)
WFP— (Nearly inaudible) Do you have a stapler?
ME— (I cup my hand to my ear to indicate that despite the fact she is a mere two feet away from me, I cannot hear her) I'm sorry?
WFP— (Even less audible) Do you have a stapler?
(Pause)
ME— A stapler?
WFP— (Nods)
(I give her a stapler and she begins counting her prints and stapling them together. When she is done, she looks up at me.)
ME— How many were there?
WFP— (Completely inaudible)
ME— (Cup hand to ear, hoping yet again to indicate that I CANNOT HEAR HER!!!!!) I'm sorry?
WFP— Nineteen. (Pause) I'm sorry. I can't speak very loud right now.
2 comments:
No! Ya think?!
AAHHH! That drives me nuts...I have some whispering students that come into the library, quite different from the Social Work Graduate Students who love to announce loudly that they are doing their papers on "PEDOPHILES!" ha ha ha...people are nuts!
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