Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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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.
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?
No, they don't, but it's the perception that they might that will paralyze many people.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
No, they don't, but it's the perception that they might that will paralyze many people.
Right. I mean, library fines don't paralyze me, but other situations do, and the longer it goes, the harder it is to do anything about it, and the worse it gets.
Don't try to apply regular, sane person logic to it. It doesn't work. Chances are, the person being oh-so-avoidant KNOWS in the non-broken part of the brain that they are being crazy about it, but the broken part's louder.