Comments on: The Naming of Customers http://www.josephzitt.com/wordpress/archives/29 Joseph Zitt on writing, selling, and considering books and music. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:58:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jane http://www.josephzitt.com/wordpress/archives/29/comment-page-1#comment-225 Jane Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:53:10 +0000 http://www.josephzitt.com/wordpress/archives/29#comment-225 P.S. When I was on the staff of a large urban downtown church in a city that will remain nameless, we had a ministry of hospitality to anyone who walked in, and this included, well, everyone. One of our schizophrenic guests acquired the nickname of "Beethoven" because of his hairdo (well, hair undo, but he did look like Beethoven, hair-wise) and the look in his eyes. Eventually we had to ask him not to come back after he defecated in one of the pews. (Not during a service. The church remained open in case someone wanted to come in and pray.) Gotta set boundaries sometime... P.S. When I was on the staff of a large urban downtown church in a city that will remain nameless, we had a ministry of hospitality to anyone who walked in, and this included, well, everyone. One of our schizophrenic guests acquired the nickname of “Beethoven” because of his hairdo (well, hair undo, but he did look like Beethoven, hair-wise) and the look in his eyes.

Eventually we had to ask him not to come back after he defecated in one of the pews. (Not during a service. The church remained open in case someone wanted to come in and pray.) Gotta set boundaries sometime…

]]> By: Jane http://www.josephzitt.com/wordpress/archives/29/comment-page-1#comment-224 Jane Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:49:35 +0000 http://www.josephzitt.com/wordpress/archives/29#comment-224 Don't you love being in service professions? :-b Jane (who just ran into a cluster of her students -- classes begin tomorrow at the college and we were all at the bookstore, checking to see if the books were in) Don’t you love being in service professions? :-b

Jane (who just ran into a cluster of her students — classes begin tomorrow at the college and we were all at the bookstore, checking to see if the books were in)

]]> By: Tom http://www.josephzitt.com/wordpress/archives/29/comment-page-1#comment-220 Tom Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:08:19 +0000 http://www.josephzitt.com/wordpress/archives/29#comment-220 Years ago when I was a paraprofessional in a large central public library there was a homeless man who frequented the fine arts reading room where I worked. His hallmark was a hacksaw blade which he carried clenched in his teeth. He perfected the art of sleeping in the chairs (against library policy) and awakening whenever the assistant head of the department would get within 10 feet of him. We all referred to the guy as "Hacksaw" and all of us found the interplay between the asst. dept. head and Hacksaw quite engaging. We have a different set of interesting patrons in the academic library where I now reside as a faculty member. In most of the cases now we learn the readers' name. And, we've been known to phone the Reference Desk from behind the scenes to rescue a colleague from the clutches of someone explaining in way too much detail their recent kidnapping by aliens. Years ago when I was a paraprofessional in a large central public library there was a homeless man who frequented the fine arts reading room where I worked. His hallmark was a hacksaw blade which he carried clenched in his teeth. He perfected the art of sleeping in the chairs (against library policy) and awakening whenever the assistant head of the department would get within 10 feet of him. We all referred to the guy as “Hacksaw” and all of us found the interplay between the asst. dept. head and Hacksaw quite engaging. We have a different set of interesting patrons in the academic library where I now reside as a faculty member. In most of the cases now we learn the readers’ name. And, we’ve been known to phone the Reference Desk from behind the scenes to rescue a colleague from the clutches of someone explaining in way too much detail their recent kidnapping by aliens.

]]> By: msmas http://www.josephzitt.com/wordpress/archives/29/comment-page-1#comment-219 msmas Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:06:47 +0000 http://www.josephzitt.com/wordpress/archives/29#comment-219 Great post ~ made me giggle! Great post ~ made me giggle!

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