drawing by W.S. Gilbert
Early evening.
A couple looking to be in their late twenties approached the desk. The man asked if we had westerns. "Yes we do," I said, and walked them both back to those shelves. As the man started looking at the books, the woman turned to me and whispered, "Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure," I said.
"Do you have pornography, like?"
As it happens, the short-story anthologies are shelved right next to the westerns, and several collections of erotic short stories are right there, at eye level. I pulled them out for her, and as she browsed the covers, turned some pages, and murmured "Oh, this looks nice," her companion looked up from the westerns with a big smile on his face and said, "Take your time, hon, this is gonna take me a while."
I walked back and cut two more "happy customer" notches in my desk.
3 comments:
What a cute story of not-so-innocent youth! Made me blush and giggle at the same time.
Hahahaa...yep, blush and giggle. How funny! You do run into the most interesting scenerios, my dear!
There is nothing - nothing - like being a librarian in a large, urban public library. I have the best job in the world.
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