... to the surreal world of working in a library. You really couldn't make it up!
This morning's favourite:
Customer: "I'm looking for the provenance behind a quote, please"
Me: "Oh right, which quote is that?"
Customer: "Dead birds don't fall out of their nests, I'm sure it was Winston Churchill who said it."
Me (after several minutes of internet research): So, the story goes that one of Churchill's aides passed him a note at a meeting saying "Sir, your fly is undone." Churchill glanced down, then wrote back "Don't worry, dead birds don't fall out of their nests".
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