Patrons, Programs & Problems...

Yesterday I had a craft program at work that only had seven children signed up for ahead of time. Because of a lack of attendance in all of our other craft programs in the past I only had a few extra crafts prepared thinking that no one was going to show up. Oh boy was I wrong.

Tons of mothers and their children showed up trying to get into the program, and their attitudes were in tow. Every mother that tried to get in was a complete bitch to me and when I did let the people on the waiting list in they caused problems.

I cannot tell you how frustrated I was. Because of all of these people I didn't get to do the program the way I would have liked to and I'm a craft perfectionist. I typically make sure everyone has what they need, I walk around to see who needs help and tell the kids what an awesome job they are doing, etc.

I was annoyed beyond belief by the time I cleaned everything up and was back in the office. It totally sucks having a four-year-old look at you all pouty asking which one is hers because her mother sucks and doesn't understand the concept of signing up ahead of time so we know how much to buy and how many people to set up for. Ugh!

Meetings & Cupcake Baking...

I spent all of two hours at work today because the first half of the day I was in a meeting (Which was really boring, but "Marie" was there to keep me company) and I some how got my Department Head to agree to let me leave work early (At 3:30pm instead of 5:00pm) to bake cupcakes in ice cream cones for a program that I'm having tomorrow. So basically I got to enjoy myself a nice lazy day today because I really didn't do anything in the two hours I was actually in the library.

Seeing that today was so peaceful I'm guessing there is going to be chaos tomorrow during my Thanksgiving food craft. We'll see...

Death Wish...

While I was doing one of my programs today I had a mother grab my camera out of my hand and she started taking her own pictures of her child. Her excuse for taking my camera? She claimed that she has three of her own DSLRs and she knows what she is doing. I wanted to kick her teeth in so badly, but I stopped myself from going ape shit on her.

When my Department Head came in I told her about it and I told her that if anyone else ever takes my camera out of my hands again that I will beat the shit out of them and that I will never again take pictures for the library ever again. She didn't know what to say. We'll see what happens next time I have this program.