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...so now I'm hoping the electrical engineers will forgive me. Yes, we are very grateful that readers will no longer be bumping into bookcases and staff will no longer get eyestrain from looking at labels in the dark. Maybe the idea was to string it out for so long that, by the time they did manage to change the bulb, we'd be so completely and pathetically grateful after having been in the dark for so long that we'd offer them chocolates. Sorry, lads, no eating in the reading room.

Now all we have to do is teach readers about volume control ("did your mother never tell you that you shouldn't shout in a library?") and how to ask questions ("yes, surprisingly, since I work here, I do know where the stairs are. I can even point you in the direction of the toilets and the books, if you ask really nicely.") *sigh*

Current Mood: silly

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We have been forbidden to change light bulbs 'on health and safety grounds'. what exactly these grounds are, I'm not sure, but I certainly imagine that I would not leave a burned out flourescent bulb hanging from the hook on the back of the toilet door, waiting for a woman to shut it, causing the bulb to drop to the floor, shattering into thousands of tiny sharp shards, the way the electrician did.

Perhaps I will squeeze too hard and break a bulb in my fist? Or stick my tongue in the socket? At home, certainly, I always come over all faint the moment a bulb burns out, and need to lie down with a cool cloth over my eyes for a time...

I am trusted to take blood, resuscitate babies, hell, even administer controlled drugs. but I can not change a light bulb in a bedside lamp.

gotta love em... :)