Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site gatech.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!clyde!akgua!gatech!spaf
From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: librarians?
Message-ID: <2597@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Dec-83 11:56:38 EST
Article-I.D.: gatech.2597
Posted: Thu Dec  1 11:56:38 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Dec-83 12:44:06 EST
References: <607@houxz.UUCP>
Organization: Georgia Tech School of ICS, Atlanta
Lines: 46

Actually, if I were to approach a librarian, I'd chat for a few
minutes, then say something about not using my library card much.  I'd
inquire if it could be used to take out anything in the library.  The
answer should be yes, at which point I'd ask how to sign her out.

Now, style is important here.  That approach can be cute or it can be
really stupid.  Unfortunately, I'm not often cute.  However, I believe
that a small amount of humor goes a long way towards establishing an
initial relationship.

Similar line a friend used to get a first date with a girl back in high
school days:  She was working in a McDonalds.  We came in and he looked
at the menu, looked at her, and asked if "everything here" can be
ordered to go.  She said yes and stood poised with pencil ready.  He
told her to get her coat and purse.  He wasn't expecting much reaction
(I mean, really -- with a line like that?), but was pretty surprised
when she said to wait 10 minutes, she was getting off work then.

I guess it takes just the right person at the right time to make
something so corny and brazen to work.  Then again, Karen (the lady
involved) was a little unusual.  She was fired a few weeks later when a
district supervisor came in unnannounced as a customer and told her to
"make me a Big Mac."  Karen stepped back from the counter, waved a
straw at him, and said "Okay -- poof! You're a Big Mac."  (she was in a
rather silly mood.)  The guy pulled out some kind of indentification
and told her she was fired.  Karen was a little pissed since she was
just trying to be cheery, so she whipped off her apron and hat and
threw them on the floor and made some comment about "I'm glad -- you
don't pay me enough to keep me lying to the people from the Board of
Health all the time, anyhow." Had quite an effect on the people in the
store.

I digress (and I have lots more stories where that came from).  The
point is, sometimes a funny invitation is just what you need.  In fact,
if you're the type who can come up with a funny invitation and the
other person likes it, that's a good sign you may have something in
common to start with, right?

Hmmm?  Oh excuse me, the people are here for my lobotomy.  Maybe
it's the aluminum in my food....

-- 
Off the Wall of Gene Spafford
School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet:	Spaf @ GATech		ARPA:	Spaf.GATech @ CSNet-Relay
uucp:	...!{akgua,allegra,rlgvax,sb1,unmvax,ulysses,ut-sally}!gatech!spaf