Working in a library, I've heard some doozies. Like the gentleman who called because his doctor prescribed a new medication for him, and "I don't know what it's for"... so he asked me to look it up.
I get out one of our pharmaceutical books, and find the medication in question... I read the information to him, and he starts asking me all of these questions as if I've suddenly turned into a registered nurse.
My side of the conversation pretty much consisted of: "I'm not sure, sir, the book doesn't say anything about that." "Sorry, sir, the book doesn't contain enough information for me to answer a question like that." "No, sir, I don't happen to just know it off-hand."
Then he managed to top himself with his last question... "So, should I go ahead and take this then?"
I told him, in the most polite way I possibly could, that I'm not knowledgeable in the medical profession, and that it's not my business to tell someone whether or not they should take their medication, and he should call his doctor's office and ask them.
He sighed, and said, "Well, I was hoping
you could tell me."
There was also the lady who, after looking at our video collection for about 20 minutes... which is categorized alphabetically, by title... came over and told me, "I can't figure out how your videos are categorized."
I have others, but I'll stop there.
