I love going to the library. I love being surrounded by books and can wander around in a library and bookstore for hours. Usually the experience is relaxing to me. Yesterday not so much thanks to a rude librarian and her stupid wooden goose. That's right. A wooden goose ruined my library experience yesterday.
I walked into the library and set my books on the return counter just like normal. The librarian was even standing there when I set them down. As I started to walk away and head over to the books to look around, the woman turns around and tells me I should have set the books on the other side of the computer at the counter. I replied that maybe they need to put up a sign explaining that if that's where they want the books. The woman proceeded to tell me that's what the wooden goose on the counter is for. Not a sign or anything with words, but a wooden goose.
Apparently I missed something in all of my years of education and living in the real world. Apparently someone forgot to tell me along the way that a wooden goose translates to 'place your books here'. Are you kidding me? Puh-leeze.
Annoyed by the woman and her wooden goose, I went on to tell her that no normal person would know her wooden goose is a signal to place books next to the goose and walked away. Maybe I shouldn't have said that, but I didn't appreciate being treated like the crazy one in the situation. She's the fruitcake talking with wooden animal cutouts, not me.
Anyways, I got my books and feel much better after venting. I'm reading Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches right now and enjoying it very much.
Maybe I won't see crazy goose lady when I go back to return it.
1 comment:
wow that is RIDICULOUS. i didn't realize wooden geese signified anything other than a weird trinket. kinda funny though, i definitely laughed when i read that :)
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