TGIF: My dog ate my library book
While we're on the topic of libraries and my foibles therein, here's an idea from San Francisco that the locals might want to copy. It would save me a pile of money.
According to SFGate.com, borrowers were allowed to return overdue books without paying fines -- which max out at $5 per book -- but had to tell the library why they were tardy. A group of second-graders said they were too busy rescuing marine mammals. One woman said she just couldn't part with a beautiful early 20th-century book with good-feeling paper and plate illustrations -- it looked so posh on her shelf.
Comments
I'd stick with: "I put it on a high shelf so the dogs couldn't reach it and forgot it was there."
Posted by: patrick lackey | June 19, 2009 12:47 PM