Patron: I’d like to check something out on this card.
Me: This is a business card.
Patron: It’s a library card. I use it at PCI branch all the time.
Me: That’s… impossible.
Patron: Well, I do!
Me: This has nothing on it to identify you. It has the phone number for PCI branch.
Patron: But I check books out there every week!
Me: I’m sorry, but that’s just not possible unless every single staff member there knows who you are.
Patron: Now you listen to me, I was a teacher at Curtis for many years, and this is my library card.
Me: In that case, it makes sense that the staff there knows you, but unfortunately we do not and we won’t be able to check out materials to you. Library cards look like
this.
I show them a library card.
Patron: Oh! I have one of those!
Patron shows me their actual library card.
Me: So…
Patron: I may be mistaken about this.
Me: Maybe.
The Library Card story resonates…I have some red in my wallet…kept pulling every other red card but my library card for a while. I now have a special pouch just for my library card…😘