came across a little question on ask metafilter: “are librarians allowed to date patrons?” a cute question, asked completely innocently out of curiosity. one person replied that her husband was such a person, an ex-patron. mostly people saying that a patron is not considered something you maybe can’t accept, like boxes of chocolates or tickets or other gifts. people on a gift register? or money. where is the free money? bribery zone please!
just kidding. i’d have to say in my short librarian life that suitable patrons for dating are quite rare. but unsuitable advances have happened, and by that i mean people coming across in an unpleasant way, and those far, far too old. as i am no longer baby of the workroom this sort of behaviour seems to have stopped, or perhaps my scowl is working. maybe if i worked in a university or somewhere else where the patrons are a bit more gated, it might be different. but then i wouldn’t get to see other people’s cutie pie kids.
also i am doing ‘dealing with difficult customer’ training tomorrow, entirely appropriate for my library…
ponder that with a photograph of scary chickens.
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heh heh… a colleague of mine met her husband in the library. He was an engineering student. They have 2 kids now
I have been asked out for coffee once but it was by a drunk guy who I had been consoling because his pet duck had just been run over. I managed to get out of that one.
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