Excerpt from an email just written to T.G. regarding his request that I renew our library stuff online:
I renewed all the books online. However, I find the website very weird and hostile while renewing. Because I did the renew thing and it was all "One or more of your items cannot be renewed, please see the circulation desk" and then I was all "Ugh, this sucks."
So I tried renewing them one at a time and it said that same dumb message for each one and I was so confused because SURELY not every single book is nonrenewable, right?
Then I looked and saw they had all renewed anyway and whole thing was just a confusing and pointless web glitch or something and I was very grumpus about it. Why say books cannot be renewed when books have in fact BEEN renewed. I'm going to buy a monkey and take it over to the webmaster's house and let said monkey throw poo at them. Of course, they might not understand why I am standing there with a poo flinging monkey instead of just telling them exactly what my problem is, but that is their fault. If they are going to be all subversive and weird about their renewing system I am going to be all subversive and weird about telling them how I feel about it.
So there.
Now, where is there a Monkey Store?
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Can I borrow that monkey when you are done? I was just ranting to Matt last night about how lame our library system is and how insane it is that you need to pay 25 cents to hold a book and then if you don't pick it up on time, another 25 cents. Recently, I paid 50 cents to the Lower Mac library and I don't even have the book (b/c I didn't get it on time)! So, I would love to borrow that poo flinging monkey and let him have at it. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, Jane, I understand completely. We used to go to that library all the time because I appreciated how nice and clean it was. (including the bathrooms) However, I found the staff to be...well...a tad hard to work with. And the fees were insane. I'm sorry but I think fees should only be required when you bring a book back late. I used to work in a library and it literally takes ten seconds to pull a book and put it in on the 'reserved' shelf. Why are we being charged a quarter for this? Bleh.
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