[Publib] Could we talk about funny names for patrons?

[Kristie Boucher]

At a former job, we had:

 

"Weird tv show guy" who would watch old tv shows, such as Three's Company, and call asking about actresses names. For example: I'm watchng Three's Company and there is a girl with blond hair wearing short red shorts, what is her name?  Thanks to the local tv listings, we could find out the name of the episode, and then through tv.com find out the name of the actress, if indeed she was a guest star and not some random person in the crowd (it was usually half and half). We would also have to spell out her name for him while he wrote it down. He called every half hour for a few hours every day. 

 

"Movie lady" who would call wanting to know who had distribituted certain movies, usually documentaries and educational films She called about twice a week and we had a ready reference book just for her. 

 

"Preacher Man" who didn't preach, but was severely OCD and had certain things he had to touch and do before he entered our department and I'm assuming the library. Once he was in he was good for the day, whenever he would reenter from taking a smoke break, his list of things to touch was much shorter. He got his name from a bible sitting out that he touched every day. He wore the word away on the page. Wish i could remember what word. He was a great man, could set your watch by when he left the library everyday. 

 

At my current job I'm not out around the public as much, but we have a little old lady I like to call Strawberry Shortcake, due to the color of her hair, clothes, makeup and general demeanor and we have the self named Troll, the name pretty much fits. 







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