Okay so a few months ago I checked out six copies of the same book for my book club, all on my card. These women are all my good friends and I trust them all explicitly. We all remember returning them to the library but of course one did not get checked in. We have all searched and searched. I have made the library search and search (since I know it was them that lost it....grrrrrrrr) I have renewed it countless times and of course it was a freakin hard bound with a $30 fine. They all graciously agree to chip in $5 then we get an idea.....My book club pals find it online at Amazon. I call the library......of course they say no replacing the book yourself and paying the $5 cataloging fee. It must be a library bound edition! So I find a library bound edition online and decide to try my luck......but I was not brave enough to actually buy it first....in case I would then be out $45 instead of $30.So here's how it went down tonight.....here is an excert from the e-mail I wrote to my book club gals.....
Okay------so you know the REALLY REALLY ONERY librarian at the (local) library? The one we all avoid? Well I went tonight to face the gallows. My time was up. Max renewals. So I kept waiting for another nicer librarian to come up to the desk but gave up by about 8:15. I must have been a piece of work tonight. Of all the times to look put together and never-lost-a-book-in-my lifeish………… I had LOST my library card that I have had for like 8 years.
About this time she snaps at a poor lady trying to use the self-check for the first time (snatching her card away from her and telling her she had it upside down or backwards) then she really gave it to a guy who waked in barefoot-----you can bet he will never try that again----all the while working with me. Truly eyes in the back of her head.
Long story short – she is a nice lady deep down and just acts mean! (you know-the mean librarian image?) I remember once her snarling at me about a book I was checking out and asking if it was good. Maybe she just likes to snarl and snap.
Morals of this story:
1. Never judge a book by it's title (the book wasn't even that good!)
2. Never judge a mean librarian.
3. Blame it on your book club, even if it was probably you that lost it! (hee hee)
3 comments:
Hey, I think that we have all had to deal with our share of mean librarians or mean school secretaries, or mean teachers. I swear, sometimes I think that they are on a "Power Surge" and they are never wrong. Grrr is right! I'm with you sister. I still judge a book by the cover or whoever it might be. I guess I need to repent to be more like you. :) Your posts always make me smile. I love them.
I swear all librarians are like that. Grumpy grumpy. Cool that you got off!
Dang--I wish I'd known they would do a trace BEFORE I'd paid for two books that I know I didn't lose.
It seems like everytime I do a request for a book from another library...it takes forever for them to log it back into their system when I return it.
So, like a dummy I paid for both books (two separate times) once I had renewed it my maximum times.
Luckily, they were kids books and were only about $10 each.
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