Tunn11
Justified & Ancient
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I could never get over how many parents dumped their kids in the library while they buggered off somewhere else. A couple of times we had to wait around after closing waiting for the parents to come back from shopping. We always called the police as a common reaction from the parents was "We left him/her in the library, you've got staff to keep an eye on them." Yes, of course we know every child and carer who comes in the place - idiots. The one time we did have a kid screaming that the man carrying him was not his dad, we stopped them and called the police - the man was the kid's dad but was actually grateful to us as, as he put it; supposing I hadn't been?
We had a library in a multi use building where they found a kid who'd been locked in when the library closed. The parents had left him (age 6) 10 minutes before the library closed while they walked to the other end of the High St, about a third of a mile, to get a burger. It turned out the kid, by his own admission had hidden when the library closed and staff were checking the rooms. I found the centre manager having a go at the library mangager the next day. She had apologised to the parents and bought the mother flowers! She didn't appreciate me telling her that she should have called the police and that she was a ****ing idiot. As said centre manager was several grades above me in the pecking order this nearly turned out badly. It was only when I suggested calling the police for their opinion and giving them the names of the parents that it all went quiet.
We had a library in a multi use building where they found a kid who'd been locked in when the library closed. The parents had left him (age 6) 10 minutes before the library closed while they walked to the other end of the High St, about a third of a mile, to get a burger. It turned out the kid, by his own admission had hidden when the library closed and staff were checking the rooms. I found the centre manager having a go at the library mangager the next day. She had apologised to the parents and bought the mother flowers! She didn't appreciate me telling her that she should have called the police and that she was a ****ing idiot. As said centre manager was several grades above me in the pecking order this nearly turned out badly. It was only when I suggested calling the police for their opinion and giving them the names of the parents that it all went quiet.