[Publib] Re: Heroes, or, Library as Alibi

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In a message dated 10/17/2007 2:20:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
loganrb at sbcglobal.net writes:

Judy Turner writes...."Teenagers have been telling their parents they  are 
going to the library for about as long as there have been nearby libraries  to 
go to".  

Some years ago while working in a large public  library in another city,  I 
had to break the news to the father of a  young woman (perhaps 16 y/o) that his 
daughter was not working in the library  as a volunteer, and that she was not 
even registered as a volunteer, as she  had told him. She did come to the 
library every Saturday morning, but only to  rendezvous with an older man, with 
whom she would depart shortly after  arriving. 


Well, she was doing volunteer work, helping an older gentleman  entertain 
himself.  Unless, that is, she was paid.  I like to see that  sort of spirit in 
young people.  
 
When I was sixteen, I gave my mother the excuse that I needed to go to the  
library, and took the family car out for a jaunt with some friends.  A  lady, 
fresh full of sodium pentothal from the dentist, ran a red light and I  crashed 
into her.  Made mom's car a bit uglier than before.  After  that when I 
wanted to use the car, I just said we were going to the beach.  
 
M. McGrorty



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