Check out these cobwebs

Daaaaaamn, ya'll.  It's dusty around here.  Since my last post, I went back to school, got my MLIS (hot damn!) and got a spiffy raise to go with it.  (Don't get too excited.  I'm still broke.)

I've also had a shit ton of crazy folks to deal with.

In the last 6 months, we've had an older man start coming to the library.  He usually brings his laptop and sits at one of the cafe tables near the front door.  He's always given off a creepy vibe, sitting in his knitted raccoon hat, occasionally complaining that we were intentionally keeping just him off the internet (yeah... because we can do that).  Then someone overheard him say that he liked to sit in that particular area of the library because it's next to the kids area and... he likes to watch the kids.  Seriously?  Because what I really need to deal with is a pedophile.

Most of the time, creepy guy (what we all call him) just gives off a big ol' creepy vibe.  One day, he was completely turned around in his chair, just staring at the kids.  Our token guybrarian got up and went to the office door and took the situation in.  It was kind of funny to watch him stare the guy down.  The kids went into story hour and guybrarian came back into the office, weirded out but feeling better about the creepy-kid-watching dude.

After storyhour, the kids emerged and we watched the doorway to see what happened.  Not only did the dude start staring down the kids again, but he GOT UP and approached one of the grandmothers, questioning her about the program the kids just attended.  At first, we thought maybe they knew each other until she began to back off.  Yay.  So, guybrarian went back to the door, started talking to said grandmother and the guy backed off.  While we can't kick him out since he's never done anything to get booted (oh, that he would!), we can stare him down and keep him from feeling comfortable around the kids.

Wait, you say!  Maybe he just likes kids and doesn't mean anything by it!  Uh-huh.  And monkeys might fly out of my butt.