Yo I work at a library too talk to me about shitty patrons
i work at a school library so sometimes (i.e. frequently, whenever Bad Things happen) you just get this awful mix betweenĀ ābad library patronsā andĀ ābad college studentsā
iāve had to break up people making out in front of a shelf of books people needed to access SO many times. like countless times. i feel like it happens once every month and iāve been here for around 4 years or so
sometimes iāll find things like half-eaten apples and wrappers from someoneās lunch, i think the worst was when one of the full-time employees found like... the remains of a roast chicken that someone tried to shove into the radiators to hide
weāve found used condoms several times on separate occasions
one year a dude tried stealing(?) womensā boots. just the boots. only from women. he stashed them somewhere and we assumed he was going to come back for them at some point so we just took them ourselves and put them in the lost & found
iāve had several students get really frustrated with me because they expect me to have the libraryās entire catalogue memorized? i donāt even work in reference???
uhhhh thereās probably other Things that have happened but i canāt remember anything specific
actually one thing that stands out from a few years ago: some dude sitting in between two shelves just munching on a pot of cheetos who refused to get out of peopleās way; i had to get security to escort him out lmao
iāll never forget the foul cheeto munching goblin, he was a jerk