Something new every day

Today I have been asked for various things, the one that stands out is the girl who asked me for "books on psychology and music- you know, the developmental psychology of music and stuff". I had no idea that was even a real subject, but managed to find a book with almost that exact title... :)

Today we've also fended off noisy children, an unattended bag and a child who was rather too fond of direct questions like "Who's better at their job, you or that lady there?". Hilarious.

Ahem

The public catalogue was down on Easter Saturday, so we had a lot of people asking if we could search for books for them. I learned to be diplomatic and not to giggle immaturely...

Lady: Hi, I'm looking for a couple of series of books, can you help me find them please?
Me: Sure, what's the name of the series or the author?
Lady: Black Lace, if you have it
Me: Ok, let me just get rid of the privacy screen so you can see the results. Yep, there are four or five here, I'll show you where they live.
Lady: Thank you! I love vampire erotica. Could you just check if you have the Nexus books, too?
Me: Yup... [checks catalogue] hmm, nothing's coming up... let me just check Amazon a minute...
Lady: [yelps] you might not want that page up when children are around....
Me: [hastily throwing the privacy screen back at the monitor, just before some rather graphic book covers, with much-less-than-subtle titles, appear on my screen] Oh. Right. Erm, I'm not sure that's really the sort of fiction that we stock here...
Lady: Oh, not to worry, it's much more explicit because it's from the man's viewpoint. And they're such good books, my stepdad gave me one and I'm hooked. Oh no, that sounds really bad, doesn't it?