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Nov. 4th, 2019 12:18 pmThe truest sign of how long I've been working in the same library:
I can, while checking in books out of the backroom bookdrop (and thus cannot see any of the people involved), identify those books that are being returned by a good dozen of our regular patrons by smell alone.
(Most of them are various combinations of "cigarette smoke + products to mask cigarette smoke." Catlitter-Man has recently moved to a different library. I am constantly concerned about the elderly woman who always smells strongly of barbecued pork.)
I can, while checking in books out of the backroom bookdrop (and thus cannot see any of the people involved), identify those books that are being returned by a good dozen of our regular patrons by smell alone.
(Most of them are various combinations of "cigarette smoke + products to mask cigarette smoke." Catlitter-Man has recently moved to a different library. I am constantly concerned about the elderly woman who always smells strongly of barbecued pork.)
