I was going to post about this yesterday but I forgot.
A co-worker pointed out to me that their was a wallet sitting on a table. I look and sure enough there was. There was a book bag on the fool and a coffe mug next to the wallet. The other tables had people but none of them appeared to notice. Another co-worker though it might belong to this one woman who was at the reference desk asking the librarian a question, but I didn't think so because the wallet did not appear to be a woman's wallet. I went to ask if it was hers anyway and would you know the wallet was hers. I swear sometimes people forget they are not at home.
This incident reminded me one that happened a couple of years back. Every summer the Univesity play host to different summer programs for high school students (PREP, upward bound, early college, etc.). A group of about 7 girls came into the library, stayed about an hour and then left. Later on someone tells me that their are all these purses sitting on a couch but no one is around.
I go collect them and place them on a book cart behind the counter. Later on their sponser comes in for something and I tell him about the purses. He cannot believe the girls just up and left them there.
Later all the girls come for their purses and I give each and everyone a good talking to. Some people it seems are born without common sense.
