10.01.07

Category: dribblings

one of my buddies sent me a link:

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com

and apparently if you click on it and then click the giant pink button, it helps them give away free mamograms to low income women. i don’t know if it’s true or not, but it seems like a really lousy thing to lie about. so click on it just in case.

hey LBC. you think you can make me a breast cancer fleegan (er, just a fleegan with a pink bonnet…not with a picture of cancer or anything) for the month of october…and i’ll change the color of the site to pink too? won’t that be neat?

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so today i went to mom’s house for lunch and she says to me she says, “hey, i was going to run by the library today.”

“oh yeah? whatcha need…i’ll pick it up for you?”

“you guys have any Judy Blume books?”

HA! ha ha ha ha ha.

then, i get back to the ‘brary after lunch and there’s Mr. Finlayson and he’s all, “I just came by to see of you had any Judy Blume books…”

i know! then we riffed on the AR program because of how bad it is.

and i’ve heard from a couple of other people about that lady and i’m SO GLAD you guys are on my side about the whole thing. because i was snotty to her and i felt a bit guilty about being so short with her because, duh, i’m working with the public here, the patrons can’t all be intelligent beings like you guys. laura even said that she hated that lady for me. that made me feel good, cos laura usually doesn’t hate people.

and not all of the “lacking” patrons are so hard to help, and sometimes they are the most appreciative when you help them. like today for instance, a lady came in and said she had her resume’ on a diskette but she didn’t know how to “get it on paper.”

“it’s on this diskette?” i asked.

“yes.”

“and you…”want it on paper”?”

“yes.”

i was so curious as to how she got her resume’ on the disk seeing as how she held the disk like it was a completely foreign and possibly priceless artifact (much like how i hold a gun, huh uncle dan?). so i had to ask.

“did you put the resume’ on the disk?”

“no! a friend did it for me.”

“oh. okay. and you’re sure it’s on here?”

“pretty sure. can you put it on paper?”

a few clicks here a few clicks there…

“yes, yes i can.”

and i printed it out for her and she thought i was an amazing genius. she gave me accolades for basically opening a file and clicking a picture of a printer…like at McDonald’s how they press a picture of a hamburger.

now that? that i can work with. but insisting that there must be more Judy Blume books for 5th graders? i can’t go for that. no. no can do.

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