Yes, the Dewy Decimal System reference index card catalog for a library.
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Did he sing a rendition of the: ”Rage Time Blues” too.
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A blonde had just been in a terrible car accident. Somehow, she climbed out of the wreck without a single scratch — and was calmly applying fresh lipstick when the state trooper pulled up.
The officer stared at the crumpled mess of metal and said,
“Ma’am, your car looks like it got flattened by an elephant! Are you sure you’re alright?”
The blonde smiled and replied,
“Oh, I’m perfectly fine, officer!”
Still puzzled, the trooper asked,
“So… what exactly happened here?”
The blonde explained,
“Well, officer, it was the weirdest thing! I was just driving along when out of nowhere — this tree jumped right in front of me! So I swerved to miss it, but another tree popped up on the other side! I swerved again and there was another tree… then another… and another!”
The officer paused for a moment, then said,
“Ma’am, there isn’t a single tree on this road for at least 30 miles. That was your air freshener swinging back and forth.”
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sorry @Frank261 I had to steal your LMAO meme
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My wife could use all those draws for her recipes.
The Dewy system was the key to how to locate any book in the library, the numbers that were on the card was it’s precise location on what level, in what room, what section, of what row, on what shelf.
If you where not adapt at locating books in a library that way, you had to find library staff that could direct you.
If the book was not charged out, or misplaced it was at that precise location as indicated.
The staff thus took great care to return books to their proper place.
Users who were lazy and careless about putting books back where they belonged could cause them to be missing for long periods until found, and relocated.
Libraries adopted the policy of returning books to their desks to let their staff do that correctly.
It was less work than doing a periodic inventory for misplaced books.
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