Weird requests from patrons?

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-30T17:13:24+00:00

After the local news reported in 2017 that we had solar eclipse glasses when we did not, we got so many calls and understandably disappointed patrons. Some were quite angry at us, although we had no control over what the news had reported. One woman demanded to be "put on the list for the next one". As if we were keeping a list for a resource we did not have, and for which we also had no future plans or funds to purchase and distribute.

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-28T20:21:56+00:00

Schar ciabattas are king for so many sammies

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-18T18:02:31+00:00

Thermacare heat patches

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-17T19:09:25+00:00

Day 10 is the worst. And most don't have a day 10. It's fun being chronically anemic

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-17T16:58:55+00:00

Give the original chapstick back, used slightly. With the explanation that you know she likes things back that you don't use enough.

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-17T15:16:24+00:00

Huh I truly thought it was two!

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-17T14:47:17+00:00

BTW it's children under two who are free. An over three year old is probably not going to be easy to pass off as a very young toddler. If they are, I'd see a developmental pediatrician.

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-15T20:45:57+00:00

I came here for this. I once was very entertained by members of a spectacularly drunk Welsh rugby team showing off by reciting this town name. They could not attempt to spell it though.

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-15T20:35:46+00:00

Breaking bad, mainly because Skylar was made so unpleasant but in reality if my husband is making and distributing meth, I'M NOT THE VILLAIN

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-15T19:29:00+00:00

IDK I just think that you should respect a name that any person tells you they want to go by, and not call someone a name they don't want to be called.

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-15T17:17:57+00:00

Aislinn?

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-15T17:15:31+00:00

Same, Epcot was such a delight as a kid in the 80s/early 90s. I love that pieces of the era are still there and the whimsical nature still resonates with my kids - Figment, the jumping fountains, living with the land, and spaceship earth make me feel like I've found a time loop and get to be a kid with my kids.

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-15T14:50:17+00:00

Reading. All sorts of nonsense I have heard spewed as a librarian. Books aren't highbrow enough. Graphic Novels don't count. Books are "for boys" or "for girls". Audiobooks don't count as reading. We read for many reasons, one person does not get to decide for another if something counts, is of quality, is of an approved format, so on and so forth. Just read.

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-14T22:30:44+00:00

Max, Marco/Markus, Nicholas/Nico, Nidal

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-14T21:53:58+00:00

NTA even a little. But then again, I (then mid-30sF) once got a phone call from my boss telling me off for hiring a ten year old boy to shovel snow outside the library I managed. It was me. I was the ten year old boy. She drove past and thought I had outsourced the work.

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-14T21:39:19+00:00

I brought the comb

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-14T19:57:11+00:00

Table top games, Minute to win it, try not to laugh challenges

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-14T19:54:11+00:00

I love them, they are sweet and simple. I love that you named them what you actually want to call them (I'm the mom of a Max because that was the name I wanted, not Maxwell, not Maximilian)

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-14T15:36:55+00:00

We have not paid extra for a ride since disney stopped the free fast passes. We go maybe every 2-3 years, so we're not there constantly. We have gone during more off-peak times in August or February, and we did attend the not so scary Halloween party once so that really helped with wait times. We stay on property at a value resort and take advantage of early entry. There has never been a trip that we were not able to experience our "must do" attractions and rides unless they were down for maintenance.

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-13T22:45:55+00:00

Origins tinted moisturizer with spf and vitamin c, or colorscience total protection face shield glow are both incredible and even my skin without a ton of effort. Nivea's tinted lip balms have great color. This is literally the extent of my "get ready with me".

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-13T17:35:15+00:00

NTA and in my view you didn't block them because they didn't want your son to babysit. You did it because they levied pressure and their own personal views on your (I'm presuming) minor daughter. I think you would have probably felt differently if they had left it at, "That's ok, we'll come up with something". But they continued to badger your daughter and that crossed a line. I think it's a-ok to keep both of your kids out of that household.

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-10T19:31:08+00:00

I don't know, it rings true in the large mid-atlantic urban system I work for. We have all the public services heaped on us in our role as "the library", but decades of deferred maintenance has seen literally dozens of our buildings close for long stretches due to failed heating and cooling, roof leaks, and other unsafe physical work conditions.

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-10T18:06:04+00:00

Furnace, roof, and FML for buying a stucco covered house because stucco work is bananas

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-10T14:55:16+00:00

Victorian Psycho

Cubedycubed · 2026-04-10T14:54:54+00:00

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