Tom Roper's Weblog: Overheard in the public library

« National Review of NHS Health Library Services in England | Main | Librarything Local »

March 04, 2008

Overheard in the public library

As I was writing a post on a computer in a public library, I heard the following exchange:

Reader: Have you got any books about talking to spirit cats?
Library assistant: Spirit cats?
Reader: Yeah, like, I mean cats that have passed over. To the other side. You know....

cats

Posted at 06:53 PM in It really is appalling | Permalink

Comments

About

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Latest posts from my running blog

Tom's LibraryThing

Testimonials

'The most dangerous man in British librarianship' Anon, 1990s
'An intellectually arrogant Bolshevik'...'his reach exceeds his grasp' Headmaster, 1972
'Dear Sir,
There is a person on your staff called Tom Roper, whom I believe to be a librarian of some kind...' from a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Sussex University, 26 June 2010

Search this blog with Google

WWW
roper.org.uk

Subscribe to this blog's feed

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30

Tom Roper's Weblog

"...an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge..." R.B. Sheridan The Rivals, 1775