Library: Portal to Awesome?

(That was rhetorical.)

So, at the library this afternoon where I returned school textbooks from summer courses, they were long over due, I thought I'd buy some old books from the Book Cellar to make up for it. They didn't have the Ibsen play I wanted but I bought some Oscar Wilde and Chekov instead. (I also got a nearly immaculate copy of Beth Orton's Central Reservation. Guh.)

Upstairs I asked the woman to order it, and as Joanne is doing that, she leans over to Sara's mother who's name I've forgotten, who may or may not be head librarian. She asks, do you know that ABC series that is a mystery solving case, but in the future, kinda big brother. She tacks on at the end, not Doctor Who.

Adrenoline entered my veins, and I as I'm about to ask about this series, Sara's mom turns to me and asks "It's not Torchwood?" Joanne was actually asking for herself, it turns out, and she actually said BBC. So I jumped on that.

I said I didn't know the name, but my mom was recently watching something very Big Brother with Benedict Cumberbatch so I suggested she look him up to find it.

She did, it's called The Last Enemy, and meanwhile Sara's mom is like, I thought he was the current Doctor? I was a little too hasty in saying, no that was Matt Smith, and tacked on rather tact-less-ly that I knew quite too much about the BBC. She thought she did, she said. Then I said that The Last Enemy wasn't as good as Sherlock, and I swear to god random women came over and were like, Sherlock? Sherlock was the best! When one of them tried to tell me Series 2 was airing this fall I left before I started hyperventilating.

I was so close to telling them that Benedict was a troll and I don't know, how he, Martin and Steven are ruining my life because they're doing other things.

IN CONCLUSION. When your librarian is versed in Henrik Ibsen, Doctor Who and Dune? It's clear where the super heroes in my town are at.