"Librarians: Beware exploding signage!"
(or "Stupid students should look where they're going")

So I'm merrily rebarcoding a trolley full of books and the porter, Marc, is about to put more paper in the self-check in machine when there's an almighty crash behind the Short Loan section. Round the corner is this guy grinning like a dickhead and looking around like he's just stepped out of friggin Narnia or something, surrounded by shards of broken glass. Marc heads off to have a look at where the glass has come from and it turns out that this student was wandering past this large glass sign board (it has a poster on that says where all the different books are on this level) and knocked it with his bag or something, which pushed it over and it shattered all over the floor.

The student talks briefly to Marc and then disappears, coming back about five minutes later to ask me if he can have a plaster because he's cut himself on the glass (I've had bigger cuts as a child for fuck's sake, all he had to do was suck it a bit and it'd be OK). So while he's there he tells me that he walked past the sign and it just shattered. Spontaneously it would seem. Marc gets him a plaster from the First Aid box and then the Deputy Librarian arrives as she has sort out why this happened and make sure no one's hurt etc. He tells her he maybe clipped it with his bag as he went past but that it "shattered before it hit the ground".

So now we appear to have magical exploding signage in the Library *shakes head in disbelief*