How to Prank Librarians

How to Prank Librarians

• Ask for the definition of a word. When they are unable to locate it and ask for possible context or optional spellings, say you do not know. After they have exhausted all options and even looked in every available dictionary and asked where you heard the word used, state that you heard it in a dream... as if this is perfectly normal.
  
  Go to the reference desk and ask for "a book." Refuse to elaborate.
  
  While they are away from the desk searching for your items, move everything within arms reach 1/2" to the left
  
  Make up titles to books. Insist that you saw them on national best sellers lists.
  
  Whenever they start talking, sshhhh them. HELLO!!! Don't they know that it's a library?
  
  Tell the reference librarian to "hold on" while you take an important call on your cell phone. Proceed to talk LOUDLY about a friend's outfit/recent breakup/vacation/etc. Glare at the librarian if they have the audacity to interrupt.
  
  Pull a chair in front of the desk and start drawing. Every once in awhile look up, squint, make hmmm or tsk tsk sounds. Refuse to allow them to see what it is. After several minutes, quietly present them with a stick figure drawing as if it is a Van Gough.
  
  Ask for recommended book suggestions. Refuse every one of them.
  
  Pretend to talk on a cell phone or watch pod casts during library programs.
  
  Leave computer print outs at the Media Desk. Return a week later demanding to know what they did with your important papers.
  
  Order a pizza. Have it delivered to the quiet room. Make loud noises of delight with each bite.
  
  Demand to know why you should return The Cat in the Hat! After all, it might take you more than the three weeks allowed to read it. Refuse to hear about those new fangled renewing procedures.
  
  Call asking for your horoscope and lucky numbers every day.
  
  Demand they read you today's news paper from cover to cover.
  
  File comment forms when the library does not yet have a book in stock that has yet to be published.
  
  Complain that the toilet flushes too loud.
  
  Ask how many boxes of pudding it would take to fill up your swimming pool for a school's out party.
  
  Ask who said a famous quote. After they find the information and a quoted source, insist they are wrong.
  
  Tell your whole life story with as many details as possible. Lead a boring life (aside from pulling pranks on librarians of course)? No worries! Make something up.
  
  Leave cryptic messages on the magnetic board in the Children's area. (See picture below of one such message left by two teens who kept coming and changing their message when we walked away from the desk, then hiding while waiting for us to find their message.)