the strangest thing anyone has ever said to me? possibly.

[fox]

"... Oh my god, your DVDs are in alphabetical order."


He was surprised by this. I was frankly baffled by the surprise. But hey, it turns out there are people who just put things randomly on shelves and figure it's not a huge collection so it won't take that long to find whatever it is they're looking for. ... That's really been the hardest thing for me to understand.

This "from mars" tag has never been so apt. :-)

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[starfish]

As someone who just alphabetized the spices and herbs shelves in the pantry, I find nothing strange about that at all.

(My books, on the other hand ... ::cries::)

[fox]

Right? I mean, alpha isn't the only way to sort, but unsorted doesn't make any sense, right? (And I'd have said this before I ever took a single library school class, as well.)

Icon tangent: a box of Danger Mouse stuff I ordered just arrived yesterday! I am very pleased. :-D

[cinco]

...all my DVDs and books are alphabetized. Well, the books are divided first into fiction and nonfiction, and then by subject in nonfiction and THEN alphabetized. I am kind of unable to understand why anyone would not do it, actually. How do they find anything?

[fox]

I have no idea!