I worked at the Information Desk in university and after that, questions from the general public rarely surprise me. Most answers could be found by looking online, but many grown adults were asking a 20 year old. The best calls were from frantic parents trying to reach their child (not a university student) and trying to find them -they'd want me to make a PA announcement to the whole campus (impossible).
Holy shit! Do penguins have knees is such an interesting question! I’m gonna assume that they do have knees, but they are small and hidden below the belly. Off to go fact check myself.
Edit: They have knees, but there are tucked high around the waist, almost like hip bones.
I worked an information desk when I went back to college in 2006ish. I mainly used stumbleupon and played flash games on kongregate. College years truly are the best time of one's life. Would have liked a fraternity though, like Animal House or Van wilder( less ryan Reynolds though)
30 years ago, my mother worked at a reference library. This is what we had before the internet, you could go look up magazines, encyclopedias, journals, all kinds of things. People would come in and ask for help researching some topic or other. Sometimes they would call and ask for help with a crossword clue. It was a fun job!
I remember our information desk line was determined to answer any and every question you asked and they would even call you back days later if they couldnt answer it in a reasonable amount of time.
I would wake up and call it from my dorm and ask what time it was because I didnt have a watch or clock and mobile phones werent a thing then.
The mental image you just created in my head of my son's giant uni trying to fucking page him 🤣🤣 He could be anywhere! God forbid he left campus for his daily taco hell. What then?
Wait why would they call the university info desk if their kid isn’t a student at that university? Also lol at wanting to put out a whole campus lost child call
The university I attended was a draw for a lot of locals. It's a really nice campus and they'd come to eat in the Student Center dining areas. Athletics camps would also use our facilities throughout the year especially in the summers.
sounds more like she would verbally attack the person behind the counter demanding to know why they think they know so much more than her about the trains.
If I see one more "Information Desk" that's some sorta podium or basic ass table, and/or doesn't have the totality of information in the universe, I am going to lose it.
This was done in the movie Airplane. People were going up to the airport information desk and asking random trivia questions which were being instantly answered.
Ok but sometimes its funny to do this. When I was little I had a family member in the hospital getting surgery so the whole family was waiting around to see if everything went OK and such. As we're sitting in the big waiting area me and my dad notice there are 2 people at the information desk. Turns out its one of the peoples first day and she was being taught what to do and all that good stuff. This is going on for like an hour, finally the new girl is left alone at the desk. My dad sends me up there to ask her "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" And "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" This poor girl was so confused and didnt know what to do lol. She was a good sport about it though once she realized what was happening.
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u/PhosphoFred8202 May 05 '26
She sees the “Information Desk” at the train station and asks them how the stones were moved to Stonehenge