Comments on: This is what I live for http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/ I write, therefore I drink tea Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:11:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Singing Librarian http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/comment-page-1/#comment-4845 Singing Librarian Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:55:46 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/#comment-4845 How I wish it would be possible to send letters like that and not get in to trouble. I am always amazed by the circular conversations like those you had with your considerably less smelly patron. I think I would have slapped the Austin one. I nearly slapped the English student who insisted that David Copperfield was the author of the Victorian novel they had to read, not, as I was trying to point out, a novel by Charles Dickens, which is why they needed to look under 'D' and not 'C'. And I am seriously impressed by the person with the magic staple in their arm. The headache is most understandable under the circumstances! How I wish it would be possible to send letters like that and not get in to trouble. I am always amazed by the circular conversations like those you had with your considerably less smelly patron.

I think I would have slapped the Austin one. I nearly slapped the English student who insisted that David Copperfield was the author of the Victorian novel they had to read, not, as I was trying to point out, a novel by Charles Dickens, which is why they needed to look under ‘D’ and not ‘C’.

And I am seriously impressed by the person with the magic staple in their arm. The headache is most understandable under the circumstances!

]]> By: charlotte http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/comment-page-1/#comment-4711 charlotte Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:52:27 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/#comment-4711 Loving your library patrons, Reed. Sorry about the smelly one. Loving your library patrons, Reed. Sorry about the smelly one.

]]> By: Care http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/comment-page-1/#comment-4707 Care Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:00:31 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/#comment-4707 Oh, I really can spell library. typo! Oh, I really can spell library. typo!

]]> By: Care http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/comment-page-1/#comment-4706 Care Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:59:25 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/#comment-4706 I once declared, 'that's crazy!' to the poor librarian who had to inform me how much I owed for returning my book late... It was like $0.40. With our libary not even open on weekends due to financial crisis, I gave her $10.00 and told her 40 cents was hardly going to teach me a lesson. I wonder, though, if she pocketed the difference... I once declared, ‘that’s crazy!’ to the poor librarian who had to inform me how much I owed for returning my book late… It was like $0.40. With our libary not even open on weekends due to financial crisis, I gave her $10.00 and told her 40 cents was hardly going to teach me a lesson.

I wonder, though, if she pocketed the difference…

]]> By: Ed http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/comment-page-1/#comment-4704 Ed Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:49:30 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/#comment-4704 That "whining" sidebar is filling up nicely ;-) That “whining” sidebar is filling up nicely ;-)

]]> By: healingmagichands http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/comment-page-1/#comment-4687 healingmagichands Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:46:11 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/#comment-4687 Do you mean to tell me that library patrons have not changed at all in the past 32 years? These people were coming to the Elmer E. Rasmusson Library on the campus of the University of Fairbnks back in 1971-75. They haven't changed. Especially the one who has the overdue book. Hope your headache is better now. I have heard gin and tonic is good for them. . . Do you mean to tell me that library patrons have not changed at all in the past 32 years? These people were coming to the Elmer E. Rasmusson Library on the campus of the University of Fairbnks back in 1971-75. They haven’t changed. Especially the one who has the overdue book.

Hope your headache is better now. I have heard gin and tonic is good for them. . .

]]> By: Lilian http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/comment-page-1/#comment-4675 Lilian Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:18:58 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2007/11/27/this-is-what-i-live-for/#comment-4675 This made me smile and think 'agghhhh!' both at the same time because it's all so horribly familiar! Hope the headache goes away soon. This made me smile and think ‘agghhhh!’ both at the same time because it’s all so horribly familiar!

Hope the headache goes away soon.

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