Calf Shit

I swear it was calf shit.

The guy said it was cat shit. If it was, that cat was very ill and needs medications.

I was directly handed five books. Two of them were handed to me separately. Those two were fine. The next three were on one stack. All together. I took the first one off of the stack to scan, but noticed that something crumby was on it. As I'm going to wipe it off the crumbs, I'm noticing that the back is sticky. Then I noticed the smell.

I realized it was sticky and smelly and wet.... I grabbed the sanitizing wipes, but when I got it wet, the smell got even worse and then I looked at the other two books on the counter.  There was something oozing out from between them. I lifted them and WHAMO!!!!!

Stink to high heaven. It was terrible! I went to wipe it off, but it was just awful! I had to get that stench out of the way! I just kept wiping. The patron was still there and I asked him if he had any idea what was on these books. Without bothering to investigate, he just said, "I don't know."

His theory was that it was cat shit. Well, cats don't lift one book, shit on it, put it back down, lift the next book, shit on that, put it back down and then lift a third and extremely heavy book, shit on it and put it back down and squish and squash it all over the edges!

Well, I'll save the rest of the shit details, but suffice it to say, he was charged over $100.00 for the damaged items.

Nasty.

Never a dull moment.

Poop Guy

Pooper guy still cannot utilitze the library. Thank goodness!  However, he still resides in town and sees us from time to time.

I happened to see him at the gas station.  He was sitting outside in the nice evening air.  As I approached the door to pay for my gas, he noticed me.  He asked, "Are you a nurse?" I didn't understand him at first and said, "Pardon me?"  He then asked again, but this time in an exaggerated annoyed tone.  He repeats the question. I said I wasn't. To which he appeared angry with me for NOT being a nurse. What a weirdo.

I mentioned this to my co-workers. ..... hahahaa! You can just imagine. My favorite response from my lovely co-worker was: "He probably wanted to ask you to check his scrotum."

Oh gross. I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Another Poo* Issue Resolved

Remember when I wrote about the patron that pooped the WRONG way in the bathroom stall?  Well, he has been banned from the library.  If you haven't read that post, you can read it, HERE.

Finally.

Not because of his poop and pee incidents. No. He was banned because he told the Director to, "Fuck Off" and then was seen by another patron trying to take a swing at the Director when he turned to walk away.

The Pooper called the other day to speak with the Director, however, the Director wasn't in. He hasn't tried calling since.

We are all glad.

It Seems Like It's All About the Poop Lately...

Didn't I just write about a poop incident?  It seems like that's all I've been hearing about or writing about lately! Poop!  Even in town - the east side of the sidewalk had human feces on it!  Get into a fucking bathroom people and get your ass centered on the toilet seat! For cripes sake! What the fuck aren't people being taught?!

This incident is way more forgiveable than the other poop incidents. This incident involved a young child. Said child was visitng grandparents for the summer. Only, the grandparents didn't know that their grandchildren were going to have IBS-like symptoms.  The poor child was sitting on the floor playing with some of our public toys and suddenly the tummy made 'free-willy' noises and an explosion occurred.  They had no idea this was coming.  All of it... watery... and on the carpeting.

Ugh.

It was my turn to clean up.  First however, I needed to use the room air freshener throughout the main level.  Then, after gloving up and getting the necessary cleaning supplies, I was able to get down to cleaning the carpet area.

I wish you could have seen my Director's face! It was hilarious.  She looked like, "Seriously!?! WTF?! We just had one of these earlier this week."  I could see the wheels turning, she was wondering if it was the adult fixated on pooping in our library. Thank the Heavens it wasn't.

Poop Incident

We had another poop incident at the library.  We just had a poop incident April! Then, there was another  pee incident, in which the April Pooper, peed his pants while sitting at an internet computer. I got to clean that one up. Some people should drink more clear fluids! YIKES!

Now, late June and we've had another poop incident.  This time, the culprit used the upstairs public bathroom.  It had appeared that the patron tried to clean things up, to no avail. It just wasn't good enough.  Another patron came to the desk to inform us of the the mishap. 

After watching the security cameras, it appears that a boy was the culprit. He went back three times - was he trying to clean it up bit-by-bit? Or was he returning to see if someone else had cleaned it up for him?  Whatever the case, it didn't get thoroughly, until one of our Directors went in there are got the job done correctly.  So, sigh... now we have to keep on eye on the boy. Now that it's summer, he tends to linger around the library all day long.

This poop incident was far easier to forgive than our adult male pooper!

Overheard Conversations

"I always thought people came to the library to get books and information. I never thought that people would come to the library to poo all over the floor."

"I had no idea what I was getting into when I started working at the library."
"What do you mean?"
"I never considered that it would be necessary to have a psychology degree to check out books."