People can be a little "dense". When I worked in Circulation at the main
library here, there was a HUGE sign over it that said simply "CIRCULATION".
I mean this sucker was big! I can't tell you how many times people would
walk up and ask where the circulation desk was!
I actually had someone
get irritated with me because I kept referring to "charging out" her book,
when what she wanted to do was "check out" the book! I guess she thought
I was going to run some current through it or something.
There was the
person who got upset because I used the word "prioritize" and haughtily
informed me that "priority" was not a verb.
Then there was the guy who came up to the circ. desk and wanted to
know what had happened to the books he had hidden behind a drawer. Well,
silly me, since he stashed them in my shelving area, I had found them and
put them where they belonged (and someone immediately checked them out!).
This guy had the nerve to get mad about it, so I had to inform him as
tactfully as possible that the library considers the act of hiding books
to be stealing. That REALLY got him mad.