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Most embarassing library/bookstore moment
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Mar 05, 2009 10:06AM
So....I'm putting this up there because I'm pretty sure I'll win this contest. But maybe you have some stories to share too?!? I was at the library last summer with my kids and, while checking out our books, my son stuck his hand in the slit of my long dress and pulled on it...pulling it all the way up to like my bra line (back side). Literally, the only way I knew about it was because I felt a draft. I was also wearing a thong, no hose. Outstanding. We bolted out of that place so fast...and I'm a tad offended that I didn't get asked out. Others? I had a friend that managed a bookstore and he had some stories, but first I'll let others share.
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Good lord Angie......that's hilarious!! I can't top that one.....anyone else?
I thought my story was pretty funny but Angie puts it to shame! Around Christmas I had a terrible cold/flu or something. I was starting to feel better and decided to go out and try to get some shopping done. I went into a Borders Store and was looking around when I suddenly felt dizzy. I fainted on top of a whole table full of books.When I came too I was on top of a whole pile of books and completely embarrassed! For some reason, the entire table was filled with books about Pirates. One of my friends went out and bought a copy of Pirateology for me as a christmas gift. I immediately recognized it as one of the books I was laying on top of that night. I still can't set foot in that Borders, which really stinks because it's right near my work :(
that is really funny Janelle. My friend that managed a Borders said that you would not believe the things people try to get away with in bookstores - esp. in the bathrooms. He said there was literally um, feces, spread on the wall once, and also once a woman left her used....feminine product laying on the sink. Guys would take porn in there or even "use" porn in the book stacks. Good God.
Angie wrote: "that is really funny Janelle. My friend that managed a Borders said that you would not believe the things people try to get away with in bookstores - esp. in the bathrooms. He said there was lite..."People have done that in one of the libraries I worked at. They wrote "Merry Christmas" on the walls. One person left a tampon on the floor upstairs. Strange things happen in libraries, let me tell you...
Angie's story is funny and the others are somewhat scary... I can't top those either.
oh my goodness... used porn in the mens room. ewwww. ewww to all those things in bathroom! ugh.
OMG Janelle! Didn't an employee or anyone come to see what was wrong with you? I wouldn't worry about going back in there; I'm sure they have seen lots worse than that (from what I'm reading on here!) and it's not like you could help it.
I'm not topping these stories but here's my contribution: We have a chain in the southeast called Books A Million and most of the stores have a few groupings of chairs. I stopped in one afternoon, grab a few books I was interested in and sat down to skim through them to decide what to buy.. The next thing I know it's night time and I had some muscle cramps from sleeping with my head on the chair shoulder.
Not only did I fall asleep, I'd slept for a few hours and no one woke me up. So I was a little embarrassed. Unlike Janelle, I have no shame. I go back into that store all the time.
Cindy wrote: "OMG Janelle! Didn't an employee or anyone come to see what was wrong with you? I wouldn't worry about going back in there; I'm sure they have seen lots worse than that (from what I'm reading on h..."Yes one did... thankfully the store was pretty empty that night, but this guy came over and it appeared that he was fixing to slap me in the face when I came to! It was all very bugs bunny cartoonish.
I worked at a Barnes & Noble near where we used to live and all I'm saying is DON'T SIT IN ANY OF THE BIG COMY FABRIC CHAIRS! I was warned about the stuff done in them and BLEAH! Find a wooden bench!
Are you kidding me Jo? I never have enough time to sit in them but I am surprised anyone would have time or the guts to do anything there.
Lisa, no jokes! It still gives me the willies, 6 yrs later! Various types of bodily fluids (and what not - use your imagination) had been found in a particular grouping of those chairs and they weren't even the most secluded ones in that store! What really grossed me out was that the chairs weren't replaced - they were cleaned by a service! ICK! (Management attributed it to the store being attached to a mall & that they attracted a wider & sometimes less desirable crowd than those stores which stand alone or are in strip malls - who knows). Ick ick ick!
OK here is mine. We were in a small, independent book store. I was with my 5 year old son (years ago). We walked past the cashier where a rather large woman was paying her bill. My 5 year old couldn't resist. He grabbed both butt cheeks and screamed "TUSHEEEEE" I was so mortified I ran out of the store and left him on his own.......never went back in there
These stories are cracking me up! I can't even come close to competing.
WOW!! Jo, I will make sure I never sit in any of the comfy chairs. LOLMeg, that is just to funny. I'm sure you were so embarassed but looking back now dont' you laugh? LOL
Meg, that is hysterical! If we have children, given my Hubby, I see that exact situation (among many others) in my furture, lol!Kelly Jo wrote: "Jo, I think any comfy-looking chair in any public place is a bad choice to sit." I completely agree!!!
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That made me laugh out loud for real! Did you ever go back for him or make him hitch a ride home.
Well he finally came out and saw me hiding. I made him run to the car and get in. We laugh about this many many years later. But it is something I will never forget.
Meg, that is hysterical!!My college library used to have the most comfortable overstuffed chairs ever. I don't think people did anything raunchy in them (they were in the front of the library), but I couldn't sit in them if I had work to do, cause I'd fall asleep.
However... We also had these study carrels (sp?)in the stacks out back that looked like cubicles with benches, I know lots of making out (and more, I'm sure) took place in those.
These stories are hilarious! They are also going to keep me from sitting on anything soft in a bookstore from now on!
Jo wrote: "I worked at a Barnes & Noble near where we used to live and all I'm saying is DON'T SIT IN ANY OF THE BIG COMY FABRIC CHAIRS! I was warned about the stuff done in them and BLEAH! Find a wooden be..."Man, that is nasty...ewwwwww.
I currently work at a Barnes and Noble and we found some unmentionables on the ground this evening. Originally we had thought that someone had dropped a purchased pair, since there is a Victoria's just down the hall from us in the mall, but then realized that there was no tag... One of the managers picked them up with a stick and threw them away.Jo, I completely agree about the comfy chairs. I've never heard stories about raunchy things going on in them but there has been much discussion of accidents...
hummmm...when I went into the Borders here this week I realized that they had removed all the comfy chairs from the back area...do you suppose they've been reading this thread?????
Really, I was totally ignorant of the nastyness of the chairs in the bookstore...I thought they would be ok if they were vinyl, apparently I'm wrong about that too.Sonja, LOL about what your manager found and how he disposed of them.
It didn't happen in a library, but about a library. I was at my tai chi class and we women were all talking about the newest opened library...(moved and remodeled to be instead of in a strip center/grocery store to now be attached to a community center in the middle of a scenic park) We all are from very different parts of town...driving sometimes past 3 other locations with more selections to go there....mind you most patrons of this library are definitely female. We all mentioned ONE particular guy that works there named Dillon. He evidently is the hottest thing in that library and reason why women were driving over 35 minutes from home and across town to check him out. The sad thing is we all could describe him, name him and everything about him at his work at the library. Some ladies in the class had said even their mothers went to check him out. Sad thing is I knew exactly who they were talking about to a tee and could even correct them that it was not a wedding ring on his finger. Talk about so sad!! Did I mention my Mom had me check him out?
It seems that I forgot to specify that my manager was female AND before disposing of the unmentionables she had to call several people to witness her little discovery.... They were out in the middle of the floor as if someone genuinely got tired of their underwear and had to take them off right that second; I am still horrified.
Here's another theory- perhaps the undies were found in someone's boyfriend's car when she left the store to get something she forgot and she brought them in with her, threw them at her boyfriend and they fell to the floor. Of course denying he knew anything about them, he left them there & followed her as she stormed out.I'm just sayin'... :)
Haha, that is a much better story... I'm sure that this "undie incident" will forever become and urban myth of this B&N.
Heh, heh! "The great B&N undies incident of 2009!" (Insert giggles here)
Leslie, I'm jealous, there's no hot guys in my local (or even not so local) library. :( hehe
Yeah. Hot male librarians are like the proverbial unicorn...
Correction...Straight, hot male librarians...
LinBee, lol!Yeah, hot male librarians? Never seen one. Wouldn't mind seeing one! :)
Well, I haven't seen a hot male librarian period. I will start with that and then potentially hope to find one who might find me mildly appealing in return... le sigh.
To be honest...thinking...I think I might have seen a hot page (shelver) or 2. Librarians, well, maybe one or two...but they weren't exactly straight...
One of my most embarrassing bookstore moments was before we had our ChuckPalahniuk signing....Yea and Chuck is cute... I was chatting him up in the back room. I'd carefully planned to have chocolate brownies and coffee because I know he likes that before a signing. He was telling me some story about how he had 3 people faint because of the gross story he told at his last event. I had a suddense sense of there being a little draft but restrained from the urge to grope with my hand....as I walked away from CP I looked down and saw my zipper was undone and my red panties were there for the world to see. Such a goof.
Mary, I while not a library/book store moment, we were in a Bass Pro Shop in TX recently & for some reason I placed my left hand on my left cheek & found a whole in my jeans! And I had no other pants with me for the 3 day trip & still had a day to go so I had to buy new pants before we left the store.
Jo, I had something similar a few years ago. I was on a trip to DC and my jeans got caught on a chair I was sitting in and when I got up, RRIIIPPPPP. Lucky for me I had a spare pair in my carry on bag, but I was so upset, the pair that ripped was my favorite.
Mary that takes the cake! IT is funny now I am sure but he had to see don't you think?
I had that happen one day when I was at work at the library. I bent down to pick something up and my pants ripped all the way down the seam! I had to call my husband to bring me a new pair of pants because I had 4 more hours to go before the end of my shift. Luckily no one was in the room with me when it happened, though!
well, i might have a challenger for the grossest, if not the most embarrassing story at a book store. my infant son was on his 10th ear infection in about 6 months, and the doctor put him on augmentin. this being my first child, i did not realize that augmentin is universally regarded as colonic jet fuel. i had brought my son to the borders for a quick break because he had been so good at the grocery store. when he stood up from the chair he had been sitting in, i saw what appeared to be a big mud smear. i grabbed him and was about to say, "ugh! don't sit there, it's covered in . . ." and then i realized exactly where the "mud" had come from, as it was also smeared down his leg.
He couldn't yet walk, so i had to grab him. and since my arms just weren't strong enough to hold him out at arms length, i put him (with his oozing diaper) on my hip, picked up the chair, and sheepishly brought it over to a sales clerk to explain (mortified) why it needed to be disinfected.
yeah, ewww.
Angie wrote: "that is really funny Janelle. My friend that managed a Borders said that you would not believe the things people try to get away with in bookstores - esp. in the bathrooms. He said there was lite..."ok.. glad I read this.. Christmas job at the bookstore is now not gonna happen.. I've been out of the customer service industry for so long I forget how people can be.. ugghhh.
LinBee wrote: "I had that happen one day when I was at work at the library. I bent down to pick something up and my pants ripped all the way down the seam! I had to call my husband to bring me a new pair of pan..."I had that happen in a store dressing room. I bent over and rip - right up the backside. I ended up having to buy a hooded shirt in order to tie it around my waist. The cashier did not understand at all what had happened - she looked thoroughly confused when I handed her just the tag to the shirt and the shirt tied around my waist - even after I quietly explained with a long line of people behind me.
LinBee wrote: "I had that happen one day when I was at work at the library. I bent down to pick something up and my pants ripped all the way down the seam! I had to call my husband to bring me a new pair of pan..."I had that happen in a store dressing room. I bent over and rip - right up the backside. I ended up having to buy a hooded shirt in order to tie it around my waist. The cashier did not understand at all what had happened - she looked thoroughly confused when I handed her just the tag to the shirt and the shirt tied around my waist - even after I quietly explained with a long line of people behind me.
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Maybe the cashier was just wondering why you didn't just buy a new pair of pants, instead of a shirt. :o)
I freaked out at the library because there was one of those 4 inch cockroaches on the floor (Hawaii). I made the security lady go step on it. YUK
