Patron To The Arts

by playing dumb i was able to check out some books this weekend from the public library. (The Kitchen Boy, Daughter of Fortune, and Living With Polio, more a history, rather then a how-to.) i started at the self check-out and when i was rejected there i moved on the live human at circulation. kindly, he explained my fine situation to me and said that if i only paid 25 cents i could get my fines down to where i could check my books out. so i got my wallet out and unzipped the change section, where i pitifully dug a dime and three pennies out of its depths.

"this is all i've got on me."

"i guess i can over-ride the system." (you betcha you can. why do you think i came over here...)

this has happened on multiple occassions, boardering on every time i visit the library. and it is the pony-tailed librarian that always explains the fine system to me concluding with me saying i don't have any money with me to pay the fines. a tired senario that keeps playing itself out time after time. except yesterday, i had five dollars, i just forgot about it.