Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Stark Raving Insanity

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.

5 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. At my DIY store I've been asked if we sell, among other things, butter, tortoises, body chocolate, and 'blue stuff'.

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  3. As 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.

    Once 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.

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  4. Margo - was it Life Of Pi?

    (the book about a tiger an a monkey?)

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  5. no no ... it was an old, old picture book ... good try tho!

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