Library Lunacy

[monkeysugarmama]

The man who runs the liquor store down the way from the library just brought me some keys that were left behind. He'd be a good detective. They had one of our little key-ring library cards attached so he figured I could look up the owner and contact them. He said he found the keys on the floor by the vodka.

So, I scan the barcode and pull up the

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[baxaphobia]

Maybe they were buying wine for Sunday service? hahaha. Your stories are certainly fun to read.

[monkeysugarmama]

LOL!
That's it - or at least what she wil probably tell the Deacon when he asks how her church office keys came to be on a liquor store floor.

Sharing the Patron Wealth

[gwtw_princess]

It's funny that you blog about the patrons. I'm glad that you do as there are so many people who wouldn't believe the kinds of things that happen in a library or how interesting (for lack of more descriptive word choices) our patrons are.

Re: Sharing the Patron Wealth

[monkeysugarmama]

Anne once told me you meet the nicest...and weirdest...people in libraries and that is SO true!!

I try to be vague about them, so in case one gets a LJ account they won't hate me, lol, and I don't want ot be breaking any ALA privacy laws either.

Some people are just waay strange though, or at least out of the ordinary enough to be noteworthy!

I didn't have time to blog about the lady Dreadlibrarian and I both spoke to a couple weeks ago who insisted she had been "forced out" of Ohio by the state government. They "stole" her cars, and then her lawnmower out of her garage and now she is living in exile in South Florida. How she got our number I will never know!

She was telling me how the NAACP is "pimpin" and Jesse Jackson is "an adulterer and pimpin" and how the church is just "pimpin God." She was like "You know what I mean?" and I said "Ma'am, actually I do *not* know what you mean..." She was pretty nuts!

The Dreadlibrarian said later "Isn't the church *supposed* to pimp God?? HA!

Re: Sharing the Patron Wealth

[dread_librarian]

heh. i actually made the mistake of *asking* how she came to grace us with her questions. turns out her family used to live here, and she figured we'd be more likely to help her fight racism than her library, because (notice the quotes here) "they're all hispanic and i can't talk to them." swear to god, she actually mentioned how dishonest and difficult to understand all the hispanics at her library were. sheesh.

yes, she was really, really, REALLY nuts.

but i mean that in the nicest way. :D>

Re: Sharing the Patron Wealth

[monkeysugarmama]

*head desk*

Where's her family now??

When I told someone else the tale of that crazy woman they were like "Yeah, her family is here...in Central State!!!"

[dread_librarian]

now you have me all curious. you'll have to tell me off-line sometime who this was; i have some possible suspects in mind, but i'd love to know if it's any of them.