Manifesto: "Do you get danger pay for working in a library with wifi?"
Me: "...No."
Manifesto: "Oh. You should."
Showing posts with label smile and nod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smile and nod. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Thursday, June 30, 2011
The aliens are on their way!
This one is from Becky in Illinois and is a great example of the smile and nod technique that I find myself using quite frequently:
I work in a moderately large public library in Illinois. I have one regular patron, approximately 80 years old, who comes in to read the newspapers and magazines daily. He has a strong interest in fusion, cyanobacteria, stem cell research... anything that he can find in an issue of Discover, Science News, National Geographic and Popular Science. He usually spends about 30-40 minutes at my desk telling me all about the articles he's been reading.
Lately, he's been reading a lot of Ruth Montgomery books, particularly the ones about enlightened beings from outside of our solar system. Out of a staff of roughly 23 people, he has chosen me to go with him and colonize a new planet. We are just waiting for the earth's axis to shift 90 degrees. When it does so, the enlightened beings are going to step in and help us out.
I can't rightly tell him that my eggs are creeping up there in age and that he might want to consider taking my much younger genealogist with him for this purpose. Until I can relay these things, I just smile and nod.
I work in a moderately large public library in Illinois. I have one regular patron, approximately 80 years old, who comes in to read the newspapers and magazines daily. He has a strong interest in fusion, cyanobacteria, stem cell research... anything that he can find in an issue of Discover, Science News, National Geographic and Popular Science. He usually spends about 30-40 minutes at my desk telling me all about the articles he's been reading.
Lately, he's been reading a lot of Ruth Montgomery books, particularly the ones about enlightened beings from outside of our solar system. Out of a staff of roughly 23 people, he has chosen me to go with him and colonize a new planet. We are just waiting for the earth's axis to shift 90 degrees. When it does so, the enlightened beings are going to step in and help us out.
I can't rightly tell him that my eggs are creeping up there in age and that he might want to consider taking my much younger genealogist with him for this purpose. Until I can relay these things, I just smile and nod.
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