It was a cold dark rainy morning as the lady staff member busied herself turning on equipment for the impending opening of the building. Suddenly a dark figure loomed in front of her.

"Say this is the darkest Library I've ever been in."

After recovering from a very near faint/heart attack, the staff member found that a maintenance person ( who had come in the building to turn on the heat) had left the rear door ajar. This person did not think it was unusual that no one was in any of the offices he walked through. Also, he did not think that since all the lights were off maybe HE was not supposed to be in there.

The shaky legged staff member took him downstairs and had circulation look after him for the next 15 minutes. She did say something about "clutch the pearls" and "pea-brained" in between some muttering that day. Had she been a male, I think I heard some bad words, but I must have been mistaken as none of the "Ladies" I work with would ever swear...not!