It comes in threes

When I worked as a cashier at Kroger in high school I was always fascinated by the people who would come to the checkout with a few odd items. For example a man once brought up a package of 6 "C" batteries, a pair of panty hose and a squeeze bottle of honey. I spent the rest of the shift imagining what the man would be doing that evening with his batteries, hose and honey.

Working the reference desk at the library I sometimes have similar occurances. When a patron asks for a strange assortment of books, my imagination runs wild. Or, sometimes, it's a Herculean effort to keep myself from laughing until they've gone away. Such was the case recently when a young woman approached me with three specific holds requests. I imagined her shopping list to look something like this:

Things to Get at the Library

- The Necromonicon
- The Satanic Bible
- Nick Carter's New CD

Brilliant.