Wednesday, December 28, 2005

a patronly good night

the good news is, we had no nutty or nasty patrons tonight. of course, we were very slow. last night, at 8pm on-the- dot one of our special needs patrons called to ask for a Disney Beauty and the Beast book. we close at 8pm, so my cocircworker nicely asked her to call in the morning as we were closed. he repeated it and repeated it for 5 full minutes until she hung up. she is a very sweet young lady but she's like a dog with a bone when she wants something. she has gone through phases...the last phase was requests for Wiggles books not videos. she always comes with her careworker and another special needs girl. this other girl makes me feel odd because she mews like a cat when she talks. kind of like Henrietta Pussycat in Make Believe. she is also very nice, but how should i respond to a person who meows at me?
anyway, they came in tonight and we found her a book (although she would have liked a bigger one...size-wise not page-wise). she had asked her careworker, a male, to scratch her shoulder and he nicely said that she knew that he couldn't do that. i thought that was pretty good what with all the sexual abuse/harassment troubles in this day and age. she left happy and her friend mewed sweetly and they were gone.
not a bad night.

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