darchildre | (no subject)

We opened 6 minutes ago. I am already done for the day.

Today is cash-turn-in day and there were like 6 different freaky-weird things that were wrong with the money drawer, none of which I had been involved in causing, but all of which I had to investigate and fix. (OMG, if a patron pays $.70 for copies and you end up having to refund them $.30, don't write that you refunded $.70! This seems entirely obvious to me. Perhaps it is not to other people.)

Also, I had this conversation with the first patron through the door:

Patron: ::brings season 2 of Angel to the counter:: Do you have the first season of this?

Me: Sure, can I put that on hold for you?

Patron: Yeah. This looks like it would require knowing the backstory.

Me: Probably, yes. Have you watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Because this is a spin-off. If you're interested in this, you might want to watch Buffy too.

Patron: No, I feel like that would have too many vampires.

Me: ...the main character on Angel is a vampire. I mean, he's a good vampire but still. Vampire.

Patron: Oh.

Me: I guess you don't want season one?

I really want to go home and knit, you guys. I could work on my sweater, that I dug out of the knitting basket where it has languished since last winter. But no, I am at work, explaining that Angel is a vampire.

At least I have good tea.

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I am a little confused as to what would draw your interest in Angel if you don't even know that he is a vampire.

Considering that this patron has watched pretty much all the Touched By An Angel dvds the library has, I have a sneaking suspicion that it may have simply been the title. (Though her subsequent comments lead me to believe that she read the dvd box so, really, I don't know what was going on in her head.)

In their defense, it was a whole decade or longer ago...(not that it really matters)