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I Cannot Go Into a Library

Libraries are great if you are a time keeper. I am not. My last fine was over two hundred dollars. I do not use a library because I do not give back their books. After I read them, they become MY books. Some have been packed up and traveled state to state with me. I kept thinking I would outgrow this need to make them my own, but I have not yet. So I force myself to walk past a library, Not go inside and not get a card. I am probably on the FBI’s most wanted list anyway. Library Felon. Do not check out to her. Hey! Is that a library? It would not hurt to take a peek, right?

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Ilene Bauer

Date: 9/11/2019 3:26:00 PM

ha! well done, caren!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/12/2019 7:14:00 AM

I sent my husband in for a book once assuring him maybe I did not have to pay a fine this time. He had to pay $97 on my fine to check out one measly book he wanted to read. This was before AMAZON arrived on the scene.

James Edward Lee Sr.

Date: 9/11/2019 11:32:00 AM

Oooh! oooh! You ain't coming to my house I got a book and comic collections that go from 1960's to yesterday...again Oooh! you know better....sign the Nerdy Library Police James

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/11/2019 1:08:00 PM

I would so shoplift in your house! Ha!

Hilo Poet

Date: 9/11/2019 12:36:00 AM

For me, I'm not allowed to go in the far back aisle of the library...

Hilo Poet
Date: 9/11/2019 4:47:00 PM

The camera is out of range returning overdue books without paying the fee, credit/charge inapplicable without admission of guilt--Library faulted for improper measures, but, since I was the sole last user--I was targeted, tho' not fined due to lack of proof--THEY got the books!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/11/2019 1:09:00 PM

I am dying to know what is back there now.