Sometimes I think there should be awards given to the people who ask me the strangest questions while I'm working at the gift shop. There are common questions of course, such as:
-Where's the bathroom (or some version of a bathroom question)?
- How much is/does this cost?
- Can I pay for this up there? (we have two floors)
- How much do memberships cost?
- Do you sell water in here?
- Where's the sunscreen?
That being said, I doubt anyone could ever top the question a short, somewhat chubby 8-10 year old boy asked me one day while I was working upstairs.
Boy: Do you have...um...a building that has hunting stuff in it?
Me: [confused] You mean like toy guns and stuff?
Boy:No . . .do you have a building or a place where . . .[thinks] a shooting range?
Me: [dumbstruck] A firing range? I don't know of anything like that around here and I don't know why the zoo would even have a place like that. So, no we don't. Sorry about that.
Boy: [looks disappointed] Oh, ok.
He walked away after that, leaving me standing there wondering why a litttle boy would think a zoo would have a shooting range. Maybe he didn't quite understand the purpose of a zoo, I thought. As it turns out, there are some old zoos in places like the south that have carnival-like shooting ranges that are sarafi themed. Mondern zoos don't have stuff like that. I know this only because I asked a manger about it later.
So, yeah. . .that kid wins the strangest question ever award.
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