Sunday, January 07, 2007
There's overdue, and then there's OVERdue
Robert Nuranen is a more honest guy than most of us are. He recently returned a book he had checked out for a ninth-grade assignment -- 47 years ago.
"Nuranen said his mother misplaced the copy of 'Prince of Egypt' while cleaning the house. The family came across it every so often, only to set it aside again. He found it last week while looking through a box in the attic," the Associated Press reports.
"I figured I'd better get it in before we waited another 10 years," he said after turning it in Friday with the $171.32 check. 'Fifty-seven years would be embarrassing.'"
This story makes me think back to the Seinfeld episode in which Jerry is harrassed by a library cop, name o' Bookman, for a twenty-years-overdue book. Quoth Library Cop Bookman:
"Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the 'Cat in the Hat' and the 'Five Chinese Brothers?' Doesn't he deserve better?"
Tee hee!
"Nuranen said his mother misplaced the copy of 'Prince of Egypt' while cleaning the house. The family came across it every so often, only to set it aside again. He found it last week while looking through a box in the attic," the Associated Press reports.
"I figured I'd better get it in before we waited another 10 years," he said after turning it in Friday with the $171.32 check. 'Fifty-seven years would be embarrassing.'"
This story makes me think back to the Seinfeld episode in which Jerry is harrassed by a library cop, name o' Bookman, for a twenty-years-overdue book. Quoth Library Cop Bookman:
"Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the 'Cat in the Hat' and the 'Five Chinese Brothers?' Doesn't he deserve better?"
Tee hee!
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Sunday, January 07, 2007 
