The Fabric of Terrorism

[hatman]

meretia, behind the counter at the library, helps a wingnut with a screw loose:^*

But saying things like ... "A muslin? Oh no, sir, Obama's an organdy!" isn't good customer service...

^*Sorry, couldn't resist.

Bonus material:

A library patron doesn't quite get the concept of time capsules...

Patron: Oh! No, I don't want to buy anything. Doesn't your library have time capsules?

Me: No, I don't think we've ever done that sort of project. If you're asking if we lend them out, I don't know how we'd go about getting them back after the three weeks you can check things out are up. I can check and see if we have anything by that title or any books on making time capsules, if that's what you're after...

Patron: *huff* Are you telling me that your library doesn't have anything that goes back in time?

Me: Well, I mean... we have history books. Is there a particular era or place that you'd like me to look up for you?

Patron: No, not history! I want something that goes back in time to the 1960s and 1970s.

Me: Sir, we cannot check out time machines to you because they don't exist. They're not real. If you're asking for something else, I'm sort of confused as to what it is you want.

Patron: I want one of those things. You store stuff in it and it, like, goes back in time.

ETA: QWP. Just noticed the entries are access-locked, but I did ask first.

Comments

[aedifica]

Context is friends-locked, it appears.

[hatman]

Yes, unfortunately. I just noticed that before you commented. Luckily, I asked permission before posting, as a general courtesy. Thanks for pointing it out, though.

[meretia]

I unlocked the post behind the second quote; it's almost a year old and I forget why I locked it in the first place.

[quinfirefrorefiddle]

I used to get people like this when I worked in a library. If you don't define every. Single. Term. you use when working with them, then it turns out you've secretly been having a conversation about the mating habits of alpacas in Liverpool. It's very tiring.

[archersangel]

*sings off-key* let's do the time warp again!

[empererpenguin]

Good thing she didn't have a time machine that's the sort of idiot who would probably wind up his own grandfather.

[meretia]

I should say, I glanced them over and unlocked the Great Time Machine Adventure, since there's nothing identifying in there. The other one basically has partial directions on how to get to my workplace, so I think I'm going to leave it as it is.