Library Book dues.

You are a bad girl.

 

Man, this makes me feel slightly guilty about my silent protest of our library because they jacked up the price of replacement cards to $5 and man...fuck that. Their selection of books is NOT worth that. Maybe I'll change my mind one day when I'm super fucking bored, lol.

 

I'm pretty sure my library is going to send me to collections....don't feel so bad...

 

JERRY: Yes, and I returned it in 1971.
BOOKMAN: Yeah, '71. That was my first year on the job. Bad year for libraries.
Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards, Abby Hoffman
telling everybody to steal books. I don't judge a man by the length of
his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But
you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public
Library, fella.

 

Yes indeed...been there done that and now I can no longer go to the library because I lost a book (and not even a good one at that) smoke another one my dear friend, smoke another one:sifone:

 

I saw a news clip of a woman in the U.S. who was stopped on the highway, arrested, and cuffed . It was because she had library books that were overdue by a couple months. The books were government property of the state. Pretty extreme to arrest her.

It's best to talk with the library and either return them or buy them outright if you can't find them for a long time. Some libraries will waive a large late fee. They're just happy to get the books back. I've done it before.

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I watched another news clip of some guy that would steal books out of the library and refurbish them. He had noble intentions about restoring books, but they were government property. He used to retrieve them from dumpsters too and refurbish them.

He went to jail for a few years for stealing government property. The judge ordered him to stop going through dumpsters. He did it anyway and got caught in a dumpster. He's in the slammer for another 5 years.

He should have become an archivist at a library. He could have made reasonable money legally doing something he liked.

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