I have a story.
I had to fax a load of business documents, a fat folder of them. I didn't own a fax.
So I had to go to the library.
The librarian started counting up the pages so she knew how much to charge me, and I realized I had left my wallet in the car. So I told her i would be back in a minute.
I got to my car and remembered it was actually on my desk at home. So I jumped in the car and straight into traffic.
Two hours later I got back to the library.
The librarian was looking at me funny, I apologized and explained. She told me they had wondered why I took so long and had tried to find a contact for me, not finding a phone number they checked the website in the documents.
GungeGirls.com I must admit it was the first and only time I have been anywhere near embarrassed. She was a very prim middle aged head librarian - very serious indeed, and it didn't even occur to me anyone would go through the documents let alone type the URL into a computer.
I thought for a moment she was going to refuse to put them through her fax machine after "sullying" her library computer, and probably expected the 1950's prim, proper and ladylike police to bust down the doors and seize the computer and arrest her.
Instead she just looked down her nose at me and was far from the polite helpful lady I met just two hours ago.
From then on, every time I went into the library I would just act like she hadn't judged me at all and ask for copies of obscure classic literature and prose I knew they didn't have on the shelves, and when I picked them up would also take out pulp romance novels or comic book anthologies along with what I actually wanted to read.
Eventually I ended up ordering in a Dostoevsky book in original language and borrowed a travellers russian phrase book at the time - stupid shit like that.
I was tempted at one point to see if I could order in "The Anarchist Cookbook" along with a copy of "The thought of Mao Tse-Tung", "Manifesto of the Communist Party" and just for fun, "The Catcher In The Rye". But I figured I didn't want to freak her out and spend serious time in dark rooms with serious men in serious suits, explaining I was just messing with the head librarian because she had a stick up her arse.
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