<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Patron Tales (be very afraid...) @ tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com</title><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Patron Tales (be very afraid...)) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:55:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Patron Tales (be very afraid...) @ tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Eww...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/eww.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/eww.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=eww</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had my (I believe) second obscene phone call at the library yesterday. 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What I want to know is where he got]]></description><category>methadone_man</category><category>annoying_patrons</category></item><item><title>The words get in the way</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_words_get_in_the_way.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_words_get_in_the_way.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 17:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fwords%5Fget%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fway</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A woman asked for a DVD of Hamlet for her teenage daughter and wanted &quot;One of the newer ones, because she can&#39;t understand the words in the older ones.&quot;]]></description><category>reference_questions</category></item><item><title>Here&apos;s a tip...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/heres_a_tip.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/heres_a_tip.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 17:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=heres%5Fa%5Ftip</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[...asking&nbsp;me (even fairly politely) to hurry up and log you in with a guest card (which we use when you&#39;re from out of town and therefore don&#39;t pay taxes here and&nbsp;aren&#39;t qualified to be&nbsp;a library member - and therefore we d]]></description><category>annoyiing_patrons</category></item><item><title>I think it was a compliment...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/i_think_it_was_a_compliment.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/i_think_it_was_a_compliment.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fthink%5Fit%5Fwas%5Fa%5Fcompliment</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I (well, the library staff in general)&nbsp;was just described as a &quot;cesspool of information&quot; by a grateful patron.]]></description><category>weird_patrons</category></item><item><title>Never enough</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/never_enough.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/never_enough.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=never%5Fenough</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We had some candy in dish at the Info Desk last week for Norooz, the Iranian&nbsp;New Year. According to Juliet, a guy came in this week and demanded to know where the candy was. When she told him it was just for the Iranian new year and it was gone]]></description><category>ungrateful_patrons</category></item><item><title>First story of the new year</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/first_story_of_the_new_year.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/first_story_of_the_new_year.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=first%5Fstory%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fnew%5Fyear</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve been refgrunting for my first 2 evening shifts of the year, but&nbsp;rather than post it all at once, I figured I&#39;d start off with just one gem from Tuesday night.A&nbsp;quiet, mumbly,&nbsp;kinda greasy guy comes up and asks to speak to]]></description><category>weird_patrons</category><category>annoying_patrons</category></item><item><title>Nobody wants your crumpled bits of paper or your help</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/nobody_wants_your_crumpled_bits_of_paper_or_your_help.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/nobody_wants_your_crumpled_bits_of_paper_or_your_help.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nobody%5Fwants%5Fyour%5Fcrumpled%5Fbits%5Fof%5Fpaper%5For%5Fyour%5Fhelp</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The other night a woman needed to find all these different types of poems and analyze them. I hate that one, because there&#39;s not a &quot;Here Are All the Types of Poems, Easy to Read, in One Neat Book&quot; book and everyone from elementary schoo]]></description></item><item><title>Another from last Saturday</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/another_from_last_saturday.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/another_from_last_saturday.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=another%5Ffrom%5Flast%5Fsaturday</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A woman wanted to complain about Phil. She claimed she'd been in the bathroom for 15 minutes changing and doing her makeup for a job interview. She lives on the streets, so she had nowhere else to do it. 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A&nbsp;patron came to the info desk and advised the librarian on duty that there were goldfish swimming in the sink in the men&rsquo;s room. He checked the men&rsquo]]></description></item><item><title>This is a library, not a massage parlour</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/this_is_a_library_not_a_massage_parlour.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/this_is_a_library_not_a_massage_parlour.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=this%5Fis%5Fa%5Flibrary%5Fnot%5Fa%5Fmassage%5Fparlour</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The front of our library is mostly huge windows, so the Circ department basically works in a fishbowl. Yesterday circ staff member Rose was sitting at the computer desk rubbing her neck and stretching (which we all learn from Health and Safety that w]]></description></item><item><title>Another old Thursday</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/another_old_thursday.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/another_old_thursday.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=another%5Fold%5Fthursday</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Safety Vest is in tonight, as he is just about every Thursday. At one point he starts yapping at a guy looking at a bus schedule, about all the route changes. Yeah, he would be the type of guy who has the bus schedule memorized. Then he wants dream i]]></description></item><item><title>Saturday morning</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/saturday_morning.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/saturday_morning.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=saturday%5Fmorning</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here's just a taste of yesterday...Buy and Sell Woman harasses the on-call for ages trying to find a book by WG Hill about money. "I think it's WG. It could just be W. But it's definitely Hill." After the on-call explains several times that]]></description></item><item><title>I don&apos;t think we have that one...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/i_dont_think_we_have_that_one.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/i_dont_think_we_have_that_one.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fdont%5Fthink%5Fwe%5Fhave%5Fthat%5Fone</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday a woman who clearly was learning English as a second language asked Cassie for &quot;Laura of the Flies.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title>Weird reference question of the month</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/weird_reference_question_of_the_month.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/weird_reference_question_of_the_month.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=weird%5Freference%5Fquestion%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fmonth</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, in the grand scheme of weird questions, it wasn't all that weird. But the reasoning behind it was. A young woman wanted information about Japanese prostitution policies for her Women's Studies course.&nbsp;Okay, that's semi-do-able. But no, she]]></description></item><item><title>Yes, I promise, I&apos;m a real librarian</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/sorry_for_the_lack_of_updates_lately.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/sorry_for_the_lack_of_updates_lately.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2006 22:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sorry%5Ffor%5Fthe%5Flack%5Fof%5Fupdates%5Flately</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's been insanely busy at work. We do SO much programming now, it's crazy - when I started we did maybe 20 storytimes a year total, plus a few holiday specials and the summer reading club. Now we do 3 8-week storytime sessions, storytimes every Satu]]></description></item><item><title>Grumpy Old Man</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/grumpy_old_man.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/grumpy_old_man.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=grumpy%5Fold%5Fman</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I thought I'd posted this one when it happened, but apparently not. It's from the last Saturday I worked, at the end of January.An old man asked me for the paper and when I asked if he had a piece of ID while he was reading it, he freaked out "W]]></description><category>problem_patrons</category></item><item><title>TLL confesses to tiny bit of ageism</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/tll_confesses_to_tiny_bit_of_ageism.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/tll_confesses_to_tiny_bit_of_ageism.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tll%5Fconfesses%5Fto%5Ftiny%5Fbit%5Fof%5Fageism</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, not really, but I'm honestly starting to view seniors as time bombs waiting to explode. 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