A short man with shoulder length silver hair and a cowboy-styled mustache approaches the information desk:
Greystache: I can't seem to find any books about the materials needed to build a labyrinth.
Me: (tries to wipe the judgmental "uhhhh..?" off my face as I preform a search) I'm not finding anything in our collection either. We have the movie Labyrinth, a book about Labyrinth fish, and another book titled Dating
Again: A Labyrinth of Choices.
Greystache: Is the movie about building labyrinths?
Me: No, it's an 80's David Bowie movie with some muppets.
Greystache: You mean you don’t have any books on the subject?
Me: No books, would you like me to try searching our databases for--
Greystache:(interrupting and shaking his head) I’m shocked. Frankly I’m shocked
Exit Greystache.
And yet again, further evidence that databases are just not the same as books (though I bet there's some niche publication devoted solely to labyrinth building).
ReplyDeleteCreepy. Sounds like a Joseph Fritzl wannabe. You could've recommended the book Room.
ReplyDeleteBut...it doesn't matter what a labyrinth is made of! The only defining characteristic is that it's basically a maze! Or is he trying to reconstruct a particular one? This is going to drive me crazy...
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