darchildre | (no subject)

Scene from the library:

Patron, seated at the computer: Can I ask you a question?

I walk over and look at the screen. She has the browser open to the library catalog and has typed "hotmail.com" into the catalog search.

Patron: Why won't this take me to my email?

Two minutes after this, I had one of those patrons who deliberately stands at the desk that I am not working at, card in hand, saying nothing, until I notice they are there and walk over to them to check them out at a computer that I am not logged on to.

I am going to go hide in a corner, okay?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I hope your corner was nice and idiot free.

I've heard of people googling hotmail (and even google) but I've never heard of someone try a catalogue search for it. :P

I feel your pain. Especially since our machines have nice signs that proclaim their catalog-ness.

I don't understand the people who stand at the other queue, even with nobody in the one queue that has an actual person. It boggles.

If I handwritten hotmail on paper it should magically take me to email too right.