more of the little things
Jul. 6th, 2006 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orangerfulSo today was a pretty typical day at work. Helped some people, moved some books, fought with thermostat.
Then, around 8:20, a little boy comes up to the desk to ask me for help. He has me search for a couple different books and while we're talking, his buddy comes up behind him and says "look what I got!" and holds up the Star Wars Ultimate Visual Guide. I said "That book is awesome. I own it, it's fantastic." He's like "yeah, it tells you all sorts of stuff, even when Yoda was born!" and I replied that I liked it because it gave you a little info on the comic book and novels and where they fall in the timeline. Then he held up a 'Band of Brothers' DVD and said "how about this?" and I told him that too was awesome, and that actually, oddly enough, I owned it too! So he talks about how he's seen it on the history channel a bunch of times, but never the first episode. He shows me the dvd he currently is holding and it's disc 4 in the series. So I offer to order disc 1 for him.
Anyway, later on, while we're wandering around, I see him reading the Star Wars guide, so I stop over and say hello, mention that we might get the 501st guys to visit our branch and see if he looks interested in something like that. His eyes get all wide and he's totally sold, and then he tells me about the program he saw over the weekend at Severna Park library. We chat for a minute but then i have to help shut down the branch so I wander away. I end up at the desk picking up, and he comes up to me.
"I have to go now." he says "but when are you working here again?"
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaw! He thought I was cool! I told him that I'm here all the time so just to check. Like a total dufus though I didn't actually introduce myself! But hopefully I'll see him again and remember. It really brightened up my night, I was giddy. Heck, I guess I still am giddy.
Ah, I love it when I fool them into thinking I'm cool!
Then, around 8:20, a little boy comes up to the desk to ask me for help. He has me search for a couple different books and while we're talking, his buddy comes up behind him and says "look what I got!" and holds up the Star Wars Ultimate Visual Guide. I said "That book is awesome. I own it, it's fantastic." He's like "yeah, it tells you all sorts of stuff, even when Yoda was born!" and I replied that I liked it because it gave you a little info on the comic book and novels and where they fall in the timeline. Then he held up a 'Band of Brothers' DVD and said "how about this?" and I told him that too was awesome, and that actually, oddly enough, I owned it too! So he talks about how he's seen it on the history channel a bunch of times, but never the first episode. He shows me the dvd he currently is holding and it's disc 4 in the series. So I offer to order disc 1 for him.
Anyway, later on, while we're wandering around, I see him reading the Star Wars guide, so I stop over and say hello, mention that we might get the 501st guys to visit our branch and see if he looks interested in something like that. His eyes get all wide and he's totally sold, and then he tells me about the program he saw over the weekend at Severna Park library. We chat for a minute but then i have to help shut down the branch so I wander away. I end up at the desk picking up, and he comes up to me.
"I have to go now." he says "but when are you working here again?"
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaw! He thought I was cool! I told him that I'm here all the time so just to check. Like a total dufus though I didn't actually introduce myself! But hopefully I'll see him again and remember. It really brightened up my night, I was giddy. Heck, I guess I still am giddy.
Ah, I love it when I fool them into thinking I'm cool!
