[Publib] Browsing and finding things, etc.

[John Richmond]

I am almost never asked to help someone when I am at, say, B&N,
perhaps because it may look as if *I* can't find anything.  And I
often can't.  For one thing, "they" move things around on me (just as
"they" do at the grocery store).  And hide stuff.  You REALLY have to
look for books about any kind of music at the nearby B&N...but art,
far away from music, is blatantly obvious.  (And I kind-of wonder why
art and music aren't closer together, because in my pea-sized brain,
art and music go together, maybe.)

I do get asked questions at the grocery store, usually beginning with,
"Do you work here?"  Often, in fact, while I am trying to figure out
why the kitchen trash bags are on a short aisle with greeting cards
and NOT with the bigger displays of soap, detergent, scrub brushes,
sponges, and other things that might, uh, seem to be sort-of related
to trash bags.

I am convinced that my Myers-Briggs type (not gospel, so to speak, and
I know Barbara Ehrenreich disses the MBTI in Bait & Switch--either
that or in Nickel & Dimed, I forget which, *but*...) hinders my
success in finding things.  I am a heavy-duty INFJ, always looking for
The Big Picture, and missing the details.  Like...where the trash bags
are.  But I could be terribly, terribly wrong.

Now I really must do some *real* work.

J. David Richmond, Lost in Space
Alpha Park Public Library Distrique
Bartonville, IL