I Need a Chair Leg of Justice.
I am incredibly busy this week. Two days a week, I'm in classes, four hours each day. ASL is a very taxing language. After two hours, I just want to take a nap. The other three days this week I'm at work. Yay, hours!
I had to deal with a problem patron yesterday and of course, Bosslady is out of town for the week, so I couldn't even call her over. The gist was that the patron had a large fine--almost ten bucks. She always has fines around that much because she's not exactly what you'd call responsible, as a patron or as a parent. She starts arguing with my coworker, and once I had been called over, with me. Apparently, she and the sprogs only come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays so anything due should also be due on Tuesdays and Thursdays but her fines weren't. Or something.
I'm not even kidding when I saw that I went around and around in circles with her. If they were late, then of course they weren't checked in on a Tuesday or Thursday. I explained that if they were renewed, sometimes holidays or days that we're closed affects the due date and the item is due back the next day we're open. I don't know how many times I had to repeat it to her before I saw the light go on upstairs. Then I made the mistake of explaining that occasionally cards expire, which might affect the due date. She looked shocked. Yes, that deserved the italics.
Finally, after I repeated everything for nearly ten minutes, including the fact that Bosslady is out of town for the week, I got it through her head that only Bosslady can waive fines. Not entirely true, but she's constantly trying to weasel out of her fines and I wasn't going to forgive her anything. Especially when she is so high-maitenance and her kids are unruly brats that she doesn't even try to discipline. Not even a monotonous "Stop it. Don't do that. Wait until we get home."
She kept going on about glitches and I think she was trying to blame her fines on those. When she wasn't doing that, she was practically accusing the coworker and I of putting the fines back on her card. I wanted to chase her out of the library with the Chair Leg of Justice.
I grabbed this link from madampixie's LJ. I heard about the Sword of Truth TV series awhile back and I see they're finally making it. I'm rather ashamed to say that I not only read every book (except the last one because I'd finally had enough about a quarter way through), but I own them up to Faith of the Fallen. They're not books I'm taking with me when I move.
These pictures make the characters look like Ren Faire goers. Okay, the world is that pseudo-Medieval Europe that every fantasy novel seems to take place in, but the pictures just...look fake. Like two kids LARPing or people from a medieval-themed wedding. I don't know how else to explain it.
I had to deal with a problem patron yesterday and of course, Bosslady is out of town for the week, so I couldn't even call her over. The gist was that the patron had a large fine--almost ten bucks. She always has fines around that much because she's not exactly what you'd call responsible, as a patron or as a parent. She starts arguing with my coworker, and once I had been called over, with me. Apparently, she and the sprogs only come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays so anything due should also be due on Tuesdays and Thursdays but her fines weren't. Or something.
I'm not even kidding when I saw that I went around and around in circles with her. If they were late, then of course they weren't checked in on a Tuesday or Thursday. I explained that if they were renewed, sometimes holidays or days that we're closed affects the due date and the item is due back the next day we're open. I don't know how many times I had to repeat it to her before I saw the light go on upstairs. Then I made the mistake of explaining that occasionally cards expire, which might affect the due date. She looked shocked. Yes, that deserved the italics.
Finally, after I repeated everything for nearly ten minutes, including the fact that Bosslady is out of town for the week, I got it through her head that only Bosslady can waive fines. Not entirely true, but she's constantly trying to weasel out of her fines and I wasn't going to forgive her anything. Especially when she is so high-maitenance and her kids are unruly brats that she doesn't even try to discipline. Not even a monotonous "Stop it. Don't do that. Wait until we get home."
She kept going on about glitches and I think she was trying to blame her fines on those. When she wasn't doing that, she was practically accusing the coworker and I of putting the fines back on her card. I wanted to chase her out of the library with the Chair Leg of Justice.
I grabbed this link from madampixie's LJ. I heard about the Sword of Truth TV series awhile back and I see they're finally making it. I'm rather ashamed to say that I not only read every book (except the last one because I'd finally had enough about a quarter way through), but I own them up to Faith of the Fallen. They're not books I'm taking with me when I move.
These pictures make the characters look like Ren Faire goers. Okay, the world is that pseudo-Medieval Europe that every fantasy novel seems to take place in, but the pictures just...look fake. Like two kids LARPing or people from a medieval-themed wedding. I don't know how else to explain it.