Pre summer nutiness

Mom reports: The library was horribly busy yesterday due to the Memorial Day holiday. How dare the library close for one day! People paid fines in droves, children ran everywhere. At 8 p.m. it still looked like 5 p.m. and 10 people were on the list for the computer. A lady tried to print her documents, did something to the printer to make it say "ykiexit" and then was mad because she lost $2.50 and logged off, because her term paper was due TOMORROW! Did I tell you to wait until the last minute.....um, no.

Library strangeness

Mom told me this story: Yesterday there were two teen girls blocking the entire magazine section. They were constucting something out of wood, paper and what appeared to be those pool noodles. It had a helium balloon attached to one side. At one point a hammer and a screw driver were used. The pair also had a hot glue gun and were frantically gluing when mom told them the library would be closing. It had been busy and no one had complained about the girls so she had just left them alone, but told them to please not hammer so loudly in the library. As she drove away, Mom noticed the two girls outside the library still constructing whatever it was. She never figured out why the girls thought it would be best to construct a big five foot tall whatever at the library. Couldn't it have been done at someone's house. The girls just gave non-commital answers to these questions and apologized for doing this in the library.

Mom speaks: Preschoolers

I did story time today for the preschoolers and they wore me out. Of course I did pick the energetic songs like Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. I did frog books and they really liked the book called Fribbity Ribbit! I love story time!

Summer is coming

It's already hot and I have too much fur. At the library this will mean a thousand people will flock in each day. Over half of them will want to use the computer and half of those will not even know how to work a mouse. The librarians won't have time to teach them because they will be busy entertaining the children and listening to people tell fiction stories of why, once again, they were late with their DVDs and how they pay their taxes and the librarians salaries so should not have to pay any fines ever. Children will throw fits. People will complain because they couldn't get into a program because they couldn't find a parking spot. More words will be said about how library users pay taxes. A busload of kids wearing identical t-shirts will come in with two adults and tear the place apart. Spinning book racks will fling books. Pages will be ripped out of easy books. Comics will disappear in seconds. The feeding frenzy is over. The library closes. The librarians drink until they pass out at home.