This morning The Krafty Librarian sent me this article from the New York Times: Library Science, Home Depot Style. As I was reading through it I noticed that the librarians that work at these libraries face the same difficult reference questions as I do, just with a different spin:

One librarian, Adam Broner, remembers another challenge, when someone carried in a toilet blocked by a plastic medicine bottle. "We got a torch and reached it down in there and melted it — carefully," he recalled.

I don't think I will complain about people who bring in live bugs for me to identify ever again.

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