This guy does this a lot. He's never come in, he just calls us with the most random questions and will not take "we're a library, we know nothing about that" as an answer.

We are his google search

O-Oh no. An older man who doesn't knowhow /want to use google?

This is why our library has a dedicated research line....

angriestbird: Basically, yeah

Bugly42: We're too small a library for that. We do have a reference librarian but she wasn't in today.

I literally just read the Wikipedia page on air fryers to him.

Oh jesus. I can imagine how exhausting this has to be

Well, ours is for the second most populous county in AZ, so while they don't have funding, they do usually have people.

angriestbird: At least today it was a quick question. There's been times where his question has taken two hours for one of us to answer to his satisfaction. He doesn't call often though, so that's something.

Bugly42: That's really cool. I wish we could have that. We're a small library in a small town, so we just don't have the staff for more then one research person. Though we all take our turns helping with it where we can.

Small mercies, yeah. Though oof. It would be so much easier for him in the long run he could just come in and just use one of the library computers

Might be partially out of stubbornness too. I'm glad you guys do what you can

I think he might be a patron that lives too far away to come in for the computers (if I'm remembering correctly), which like, fair enough. It's just always the weirdest random questions though.

Yeah, air fryers is certainly unexpected...