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5th February, 2005

Feeling fined
Filed under: Random Mumblings, — bsag @ 10:02 AM

I got my first ever library fine today: a whopping 40p. I’m like some kind of outlaw. I expect there will be posters up in Police stations around the country offering a 30p reward for information about my whereabouts.

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    Steve: o/

    David (TEFL Smiler): :-D Yes, Birmingham, home of the vampire! I caught an interview on the local news with a Police officer when this whole thing (the vampire thing, not my library fine wink ) blew up. He talked about how the person wasn't a real vampire (duh) and then said, "It's possible that this person is mentally ill". You think? I thought everyone went around dressed as a vampire and biting people. Oh, wait a minute, that's Buffy, isn't it...

    Diogo: Whoa, 9 years of fines! That's got to be pretty hefty. You might need to assume a new identity.----- Now where did I put the number for Crimestoppers...?

    by Steve @ 05/02/2005 11:03 am • Permalink •

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    It's a clever ploy to lure you into a false sense of security. You'll start to get lax with returning books on time, thinking, "Oh, it's only 40p!" Suddenly, you'll find yourself owing them many thousands of pounds, you'll go on the run and live in a forest, robbing from the rich.

    Or, as you're now living in Birmingham, you'll move to a park and you'll start drinking people's blood - so more of a vampire hermit than an outlaw.

    by David (TEFL Smiler) @ 05/02/2005 1:02 pm • Permalink •

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    <!-- spamk : Used HTTP_VIA header. --> <!-- spamk : Execution took: -0.621519 seconds --> <!-- spamk : KARMA: -1 --> <!-- spamk : Treatment: purgatory --> The other day I found a book that I vaguely remembered as being from my high school library, as it turns out shock horror I never returned it! Since paying late fines for a book I checked out 9 years ago doesn't exactly appeal to me, I quietly slipped it back into the shelf and did my best to ignore it.

    That makes me on the run, living in constant fear that some day men in dark suits with library cards will come and take me away. So you see, your little mishap pales in comparison with my life of crime. It's still not too late for you, don't make the same mistakes I did!

    by Diogo @ 05/02/2005 2:03 pm • Permalink •

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    My dad used to bring me into the library once a month to return stacks and stacks of books at a time. Sometimes he paid $40 or $50 in fines. I still have some of the books -- I was afraid of letting my dad know that I had even more stashed away in my closet and under my bed.

    I still feel guilty. I'm going to donate a few hundred books to that library some day soon just to make up for all those late and stolen books. smile

    by Nathan Ladd @ 06/02/2005 4:02 am • Permalink •

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    I predict an outpouring of tales of overdue, 'misplaced', and otherwise unreturned library books and the trials of living with the secret shame that ensues. When I get very depressed I lie in bed late at night feeling guilty about some books I 'forgot' to return to a library 10 years ago, when I was 19. Also, I ruminate about the fines my parents had to pay to my college library in order to allow me to actually retrieve my diploma. And every so often, while searching my far-too-extensive library, I stumble across a book I don't even remember checking out, much less failing to return. I am an evil, evil person. Perhaps we can start a club: library abusers anonymous.

    by biscuit @ 06/02/2005 8:02 pm • Permalink •

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