Posts: 36093
From: Mesa, Az
Registered: JUL 2000

posted 03-07-2005 08:59 PM         

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Burlington, Washington - Man Arrested, Jailed For Overdue Library Books
http://www.komotv.com/stories/35531.htm

Paper and Fire,,,,,smoking up the alley way,,,,,,,,,,,,

Posts: 36093
From: Mesa, Az
Registered: JUL 2000

Posts: 11086
From: New Castle, Ind
Registered: DEC 2000

posted 03-07-2005 09:59 PM         

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...true story....

...about 20 some years ago, I took my gradeschool aged daughter to the local public library to get her a library card....I filled out the forms etc etc....we waited and waited and waited....about 20 minutes later the librarian returns to the counter and informs me I have a past due fine....keep in mind I haven't been to the library since gradeschool age and I am approximately 30 years old at this point in time....I asked how much the fine was and she bristled with hostility and nearly shouted....." FIVE CENTS "......five cents, FIVE CENTS ???...took her almost 30 minutes total to gleen this information from the dark dank archives, and do the paperwork to collect the fine....the absurdity of the situation pizzed me off so much, I paid her in pennies( 5 ) and DEMANDED a receipt(handwritten).....all the while my daughter watched, thinking I was the same as a bank robber.....I called her the "Book Nazi" from that night on...

Posts: 4576
From: Alexandria, Virginian USA
Registered: OCT 2003

posted 03-07-2005 10:05 PM         

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When I was in high school (a Catholic boarding school) we used to light cigarettes and put them in the mouths of the busts of the various Popes. The busts were on top of the book cases and the librarian was really short so she couldn't reach up to put out the cigarettes!

Looking back on all the stuff we did, if I was her, I probably would have brought in my 357 and took care of all of us! Which makes me wonder why librarians don't go postal now and then...they're wound pretty tight!

Posts: 11086
From: New Castle, Ind
Registered: DEC 2000

posted 03-07-2005 10:22 PM         

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...In high school we had too much time on our hands due to an experimental class schedule(not many classes).....some days I only had 30 minutes of class all day, other days I might have 4-5 hours of class all day maximum, the average was about 2 hours per day !!!....

...so we lived in the lunchroom and the library....the librarian was Mrs. Creech....she survived all the onslaughts by us wise a$$es till the "Mouse Ordeal"....I found a dead mouse outside the library window one morning and put it on her desk....she came back and slid it into the trash....hmmmm, more work needed here....I took the mouse and put it in her empty coffee cup....a short while later she slid it into the trash again....next time I put it on her chair....shortly there after she came back and sat on the mouse....and she continued to sit on it for quite a while....my buddies and I were bursting with laughter all the while....finally she realized she was sitting on something, reached under her cheek and realized she was sitting on the same dead mouse....SHE FREAKED !!!... ran from the library screaming down the hall with the dead mouse stuck to the material of her dress....she was runnin' and screamin', all the time waving the back of her dress trying to get rid of the man eating mouse....

...then things took an ugly turn ....the other librarian,the TALL ANGRY ONE, noticing the guys at my table rolling with laughter came bounding across the room and started throwing books at us, even throwing our text books, she marched us all to the principals office where we spent the next several hours trying to lie out of it.....I was banned from the library for 1 week.....probably why I didn't get that scholarship to Harvard ....

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