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silverflight8) wrote2012-08-22 09:19 pm
silverflight8) wrote2012-08-22 09:19 pm
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I am not making this up.
I work in a library and shelve books.
In shelving I remove the random pieces of paper that people stick into books. So far, I have found, among other things:
*Post-its, sticky colourful flags, plastic flags, etc, with and without text, sometimes shredded into small strips. Scrap paper with scribblings and paperclips fall into this category too.
*toilet paper folded over a few times (heh, obviously I am not alone in this)
*Due date slips. This is boring, except...some of them are from 1994! They're yellowing and bent and obviously no one has actually cracked open this book since '94. I am keeping track of the oldest ones (the 1994 one, properly, is a pre-printed piece of paper with the library's name, a notice saying "50 cents per day per book", and a rubber-stamped date. It's not the receipts that are computer-printed automatically when we check out books.)
*Interlibrary loan papers, complete with patron name, requesting library, date of request, a paperclip (often in colours like hot pink), and many other uninterpretable details which look like keysmashes to me.
*A "Parking Infraction Notice", with instructions saying: "If you plead not guilty then the trial will be held at [Province] Court at: [Address]" I'm not sure if they plead guilty or not, since the stub ended up in a book...
*An RBC banking receipt. Someone withdrew $100 at some point, apparently.
*A test paper on recent Chinese history, marked in red pen.
*A piece of paper with bunny stickers.
But today I found something that takes the cake:
*Someone's completed Social Security card application. With his name, address, date of birth, mailing address. Folded into eight squares. LEFT IN A BOOK.
AHHHH!
In shelving I remove the random pieces of paper that people stick into books. So far, I have found, among other things:
*Post-its, sticky colourful flags, plastic flags, etc, with and without text, sometimes shredded into small strips. Scrap paper with scribblings and paperclips fall into this category too.
*toilet paper folded over a few times (heh, obviously I am not alone in this)
*Due date slips. This is boring, except...some of them are from 1994! They're yellowing and bent and obviously no one has actually cracked open this book since '94. I am keeping track of the oldest ones (the 1994 one, properly, is a pre-printed piece of paper with the library's name, a notice saying "50 cents per day per book", and a rubber-stamped date. It's not the receipts that are computer-printed automatically when we check out books.)
*Interlibrary loan papers, complete with patron name, requesting library, date of request, a paperclip (often in colours like hot pink), and many other uninterpretable details which look like keysmashes to me.
*A "Parking Infraction Notice", with instructions saying: "If you plead not guilty then the trial will be held at [Province] Court at: [Address]" I'm not sure if they plead guilty or not, since the stub ended up in a book...
*An RBC banking receipt. Someone withdrew $100 at some point, apparently.
*A test paper on recent Chinese history, marked in red pen.
*A piece of paper with bunny stickers.
But today I found something that takes the cake:
*Someone's completed Social Security card application. With his name, address, date of birth, mailing address. Folded into eight squares. LEFT IN A BOOK.
AHHHH!