the random musings of a real life hobbit... Now, where did I put that ring?....
I've just had a cusomer in asking me to look up books that contain the word "honey" in the title...
For "research" apparently.
In the end he took details of a book called "How to have the perfect HONEYmoon".
He is single, as far as I know never had a girlfriend in his life and is the strangest eccentric I have ever met.
I kid you not.
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When I worked in Waterstones I had people come in with some funny requests too! You just have to keep a straight face and do it! Lol.
ReplyDeleteAt my DIY store I've been asked if we sell, among other things, butter, tortoises, body chocolate, and 'blue stuff'.
ReplyDeleteAs you know, I used to work at a uni library. We got tons of odd requests. We kept a little notebook of all the funny questions we got asked.
ReplyDeleteOnce a bunch of us reference assistants spent practically an entire semester trying to locate (in the world!) a children's book about a tiger and a monkey (I think that was it), the title and author of which the person couldn't remember. We never found out what the book was.
Another favorite for me was when a particularly snobby grad student who I already was semi bitter towards becuase he was snobby to my younger sister when she went to audition for a play ... yeah, anyway, that guy came in, walked up to the periodicals desk and said, "Are you a psychatrist?" and I wanted to laugh cuz he was cute even if he was a jerk, but I said, "No, but I can pretend to be one. What seems to be the trouble?" And he said, "I need help!!! I need to use ERIC and I don't know how!!!" (ERIC is a really complicated microfiche research tool thing that graduate education students often had to use.) It made my day. A helpless, hopeless snob ... made me laugh.
Margo - was it Life Of Pi?
ReplyDelete(the book about a tiger an a monkey?)
no no ... it was an old, old picture book ... good try tho!
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