SETTING: My "liberry" as a female patron approaches the desk.
FEMALE PATRON-- Hi, could you come help us at the computer?
ME-- Sure thing.
(I follow her over to the computer where she is helping her kid with some sort of research.)
FEMALE PATRON-- We only wanted to print that one paragraph, but not the whole page. How can we do that?
(Tears of disbelief and joy nearly springing to my eyes, I show them how to highlight that one paragraph and choose SELECTION ONLY from the print menu, rather than printing page after page after page of the entire website like most of our other patrons do.)
(No, this is not an April Fools Day fake entry. This shit actually occurred.)
6 comments:
Good lord a'mighty - someone who knows how to . . . ask for help???
It's like a blessing from heaven, isn't it? :)
I haven't worked in a library in over a year and I actually shed a tear over that one.
Sounds like there's some hope for humanity.
And they didn't blame you or the computer for being the problem? WHAT!?!
Maybe the joke is that she was only helping the kid with the project. Most of our parents do the project for the kid so we would laugh at a kid doing the actual work.
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