Many people have complained to me that I don’t post enough library stuff, as far as the comings and goings of the mentally challenged, as well as the fascinating nature of regular folks that I encounter on my job on an hourly basis.

Here you go…

I worked at the central library yesterday (for OT) and this kid comes in asking about books on hypnosis.  He was about..  10.  Immediately, the other librarian and I ask him if this research is for “good” or “evil” and he swears to us it’s for good.

We look through sirsi, looking for the call number to give him some step by step stuff, but mainly find self hynosis and the history of hypnosis (this is the psychology dept).  He says ok, then disappears for a bit.

About a half hour later, he’s back, and wants assistance looking at the books.  We go up to the 155 section of the balcony and as I’m pulling the books, I ask him why he wants to learn hypnosis again.  And he says..

“Well, picture yourself in a bank…”  and I immediate jump on him and say, “I knew it!  You want this for evil!”

He just smiled and said, “it’s only an example, see, hypnosis is the wave of the future.  Everyone is gonna need it.”

The day was capped off by a gentleman being cut off of his computer time by the auto-shut off of the computer systems with the library closes.  His biggest complaint was that we cut him off mid-transmission, and that he still had communication he needed to establish with Them.

Right.  Mid-transmission.  With Them.