Can I ask -- what do you think this is going to do?
If someone is confrontation averse then they are saving themselves the perceived humiliation of having to own up to the librarian that they have late fees.
Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?
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NoiseDesign - Aug 22, 2008 11:23:15 am PDT #2773 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Connie Neil - Aug 22, 2008 11:28:48 am PDT #2774 of 10001
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having to own up to the librarian that they have late fees.
Drop them in the book drop at 2 AM, change your name and get a new card, or leave town and pick up the nefarious book hoarding trade in a new town.
Though that gets your name put in in the post office and leads to embarrassment twenty years later when you've mended your ways and are a gold star member of the library volunteers and your sordid past comes out.
Steph L. - Aug 22, 2008 11:41:17 am PDT #2775 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
having to own up to the librarian that they have late fees.
I understand that someone could feel that way, but there are surely other ways around it.
Drop them in the book drop at 2 AM
Like that. It doesn't take care of paying the fine, but the books are returned without any confrontation.
Do librarians really get hostile when people bring back overdue books?
And, really, if you know that the library is a potential guilt-causing situation, then isn't it better to just not take the books out in the first place?
NoiseDesign - Aug 22, 2008 11:42:20 am PDT #2776 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
No, they don't, but it's the perception that they might that will paralyze many people.
Steph L. - Aug 22, 2008 11:43:12 am PDT #2777 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Well, book drop at 2 am -- or after closing hours, like 6 pm -- sounds like the best idea. And maybe not using the library in general.
beth b - Aug 22, 2008 11:45:05 am PDT #2778 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Librarians do not care if you have fines. really. We only care if argue over .10 fines or think your fines should be forgive - because you forgot. or blame them on us.
Also -- lots of libraries have ways to pay on line - so you never have to talk to anybody.
Laga - Aug 22, 2008 11:47:06 am PDT #2779 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
My librarian chuckled at me a bit but only because she could see I was terrified over how much I owed and she got a kick out of telling me it was only $0.15.
Trudy Booth - Aug 22, 2008 11:47:17 am PDT #2780 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
NYC Libraries don't have book drops. Or they didn't when I was in college. If you were late you had to look-em-in the eye and pay your fine when you returned 'em.
Steph L. - Aug 22, 2008 11:48:34 am PDT #2781 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
If you were late you had to look-em-in the eye and pay your fine when you returned 'em.
I hear those NYC librarians will eat your liver if you return Twilight late...
Steph L. - Aug 22, 2008 11:48:39 am PDT #2782 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
If you were late you had to look-em-in the eye and pay your fine when you returned 'em.
I hear those NYC librarians will eat your liver if you return Twilight late...