Resolution Forthcoming on Library Fine Issue
I've been dodging my library fine for months. See, after we got our piano, I was so excited that I went to the public library and checked out about 20 music books, along with my usual reading (this was back when I used to be able to read "novels"). Then school started, I got distracted, and I didn't really return the books. I knew that sooner or later, I'd have to deal with the issue. Well, now I'm dealing with a brake situation (rusted rotors or something?) on the ol' Kia, and a friend has offered to take a look at it. I called the library to see if they had any service manuals for my car, which they did, and happily offered to put it on reserve for me. The librarian called me back about five minutes later to tell me I wouldn't be able to check it out because I have $67 in fines! Argh! I'm going to put my lawyerly skills to work to see if I can negotiate the fine...twenty bucks should be sufficient, don't you think?
posted by Ugly Juice @ 8:34 PM
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20 Comments:
Anna, I've caught up on the last week or so of your blog and I must say I now feel really lazy after seeing your fabulous footstool and amazing pears and hearing about thrifting. Also, I think Shad is about a million times funnier than I thought before I had read his reply about the armoire. That should be published. (Note to Shad -- I didn't think you were unfunny before, I just had no opinion).
As a former library goddess, I am SHOCKED and APPALLED by your cavalier approach to book return. SHAME, Anna, SHAME!!! Sell some of Shad's stuff and pay the fine with good grace. Wuv and tisses, me
P.S. About those lottery tickets....
Oh, really? You outta ask your son about his reputation for returning library books on time. Trust me, I look like an ANGEL.
My current library fine at the Brooklyn Center library is $265.
True story.
Luckily, their database isn't connected to the Minneapolis Library system.
That is SOOOOOO bad.
I didn't realize the databases weren't connected. Why don't I just open a new account in BC? After all I've already abandoned two other cards that had excessive fines (my St. Paul account under my maiden name & my Mpls. account under my maiden name).
OK, now you are both going to get a severe arse-kickin' the next time I see you. Libraries are not very well funded and they are one of the few public services left. Think of all those poor people waiting in line for the books you didn't return. Even if you don't pay the fine, RETURN THE BOOKS. I can't believe I raised a library book dead-beat and he married another one. Deep sigh.....
P.S. About those lottery tickets...
We DID return the books (eventually). No one was hurt by our malingering. They would have contacted us if anyone had requested the books. People were not clambering for "Simple Piano Concertos for Adults" or whatever I had.
OK, lottery tickets: Should we send Toby in to try to negotiate the fine down to $5 and bet on the outcome? We can send him in as a goon, hockey mask, baseball bat, etc?
Oh no, don't send Toby against Guido the Enforcer of the Library. Next thing you know, he'd get a library card and we all know what THAT leads to, now don't we? If I ever do win the lottery, the first thing I'll do is donate money to the Minneapolis library system to attone for my offspring's past sins. Sheesh....
I admit that some of my books had requests on them.
True story.
Why do you keep saying "True Story"? Are you trying to be punny?
True story is what people say when they are trying to emphasize that they aren't making up a particularly interesting story, especially if they're telling the story when people are drinking or laughing.
You should get out of the library and talk to people more. REAL people Anna, not librarians.
My stories are always extra interesting so I have to be careful and add that disclaimer.
Now I'm going to finish up this explanation and post it...
True story.
(see how writing that in there give you comfort that I'm not pulling your leg?)
Oh, I get it. Sheesh, here I thought you were just using a boring old cliche.
"vintage" cliche.
"Vintage" fine, and nice try on changing the subject, but it didn't work. True story.
Mom, I was going to save this for the intervention but it's time for you to understand..
Books don't have feelings, they're just paper, ink, and glue.
I'm sorry, let it go.
Heathen. Ok, I'll stop messing up Anna's blog.
YOu're not "messing up" Anna's blog. Blogs don't have feelings, they're just paper, ink, and glue.
Ummmm, unless I'm really behind on technology, I'm pretty sure blogs are not paper, ink and glue.
Tell me books don't have feelings the first time you see one of your written "babies" in a garbage can.
So, am I officially banned from the family unless I shut up or what? Wuv and tisses and lottery tickets, ME
I'd argue technology with you if I thought there was a point, if I thought you weren't just paper, ink, and glue.
THBBBBBPPPPPPTTTTTT!!!!!
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