[PW] A little Saturday humor

[Sue Kamm]

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Your friendly neighborhood CyberGoddess and ALA Councilor at Large, 
Sue Kamm
Email: suekamm[at]mindspring.com
Inglewood/Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Dodgers Truest of the Blue, 2000
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Gibson's walk-off home run, Game 1, 1998 World Series


> [Original Message]
> From: Sherrie Langston Hardin <Sherrie.Hardin at sanantonio.gov>
> To: <list at project-wombat.org>
> Date: 3/1/2008 8:10:37 AM
> Subject: [PW] A little Saturday humor
>
> A little Saturday political humor ...
>  
> The Texas branch library where I work is an early voting site. The lines
> were not too long the first eight days or so, but OMG, Thursday and
> Friday there were no fewer than 40 - 50 people in line at any one time
> for 12 hours straight. At times it was probably more than 100. (Yes, I
> am VERY happy to see huge turnouts.) When the line gets long it is in
> front of the reference desk, so folks who don't normally visit our
> library were waiting for a long time and experienced all our comings and
> goings.
>  
> This particular branch does not yet have automated computer sign-up, so
> we write down the names and page the person over the intercom when their
> turn arrives. Thursday, one of our regulars signed up and went outside
> for a time. I called the person for a computer and the person didn't
> arrive. I called the person a couple of more times and then passed the
> computer on to the next patron. A couple of minutes later the person
> came back inside and I said I'd had to give the computer away and would
> call the person next. I was very, very busy putting a patron's books on
> hold, getting people off the computer and answering the telephone and
> didn't pay any attention to where the person was sitting. When the next
> terminal opened I paged the person again over the intercom only to
> realize the person was a couple of feet away. 
>  
> Then a voter came over and asked me what did I think I was doing by
> announcing that name three times right at the voting site. I was
> momentarily stunned because I thought the man was teasing, but when he
> started to shout I realized he was not. He accused me of just saying the
> name over and over on the loudspeaker and kept asking if I thought that
> was right. I told him I was announcing a computer for that person. He
> kept repeating his comments in an increasingly louder voice. He started
> making a louder scene and telling me he didn't believe there was anybody
> by that name in here and asking what if the news stations came in and
> what they would think about me announcing that name right here at the
> voting site ... I then told him I would introduce him to the person I
> was calling. I I took him to the person and asked if she would tell the
> man her name. Smiling, she politely said: "Hillary." The man told her he
> didn't believe her and asked how much I'd paid her to get her to do
> that.
>  
> I wished him a nice day and he stomped out the doors ...
>  
> Funny, nobody complained when I paged Mike or John or Ron or Ralph, but
> I haven't had a Barack sign up. :-))
>  
> -- Sherrie
>  
> Sherrie Langston Hardin
> Librarian
> Tobin Library at Oakwell
> 4134 Harry Wurzbach Rd.
> San Antonio, TX   78209
> 210-828-2569
>  
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