“The Internets”

A lady called in last week wanting to know if we “had email on the computers at the library.”  I knew exactly where this was going but there was no stopping it.  Yes, I politely informed, her if you had an email account you could access it from our computers.

“Well, I don’t have an email account,” she says, “I just want to send a letter to my friends on the email.  So can I get on the email on your computer?”

Yikes… this was going bad fast and Conan was no where to be seen so that I could pass the buck.

In the end my meager attempts at explaining how “the internets” and email work were all in vain.  She did not want to set up an email account, but she would be in later in the day to send her friends this letter.  Luckily, I was gone by the time she arrived…