Over due library books.

[Dinner]

So how long is the longest you've ever had an over due library book for? I once had a book for 12 years. I was in elementry school and my parents bought a new house on the other side of town half way through the year so we packed up everything and I forgot all about the library book I had checked out. Later, when I was tranfering from junior college to a four year school I was going through some old boxes and found a library book that was *ahem* a bit over due.

It was called the Shy Stegosaurus of Crooked creek and it was about a boy on summer vacation who meets an intelligent dinosaur who's hiding out in the American west. It was really rather dumb but as a 3rd grader I liked it well enough.

Can anyone top that?

[DinoDoc]

Did they make you pay the fine?

[David Floyd]

Once I paid a $300 library fee.

[Kuciwalker]

I have a book I checked out five years ago at a library in a different state

I also had a school textbook that I had for seven years after LEAVING THE SCHOOL

[Dinner]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Did they make you pay the fine?

Nope, the library had long ago written the book off and they were just happy to finally get it back. So I guess it just goes to prove that if you commit a little crime they fine you but if you commit a big crime but later come clean about it then they're just glade you were honest.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by David Floyd
Once I paid a $300 library fee.

What did you do to deserve a $300 fine and more importantly why did you pay it? You should have just waited them out like I did.

[David Floyd]

Well, it was a university library and I had a bar on my registration. Doh!

[Dinner]

Those damn regents always know how to get paid.

[Asher]

Library...

[GePap]

No, I have never had a book overdue for too long a time.

Working in a Library, I once scanned back in 4 books, each which had an overdue fine of $300 on them, so this person owed at least $1200 to the library: I never saw them, but if they planned to graduate, that must have been some surprise. their fault thought.

[monkspider]

Having overdue library books should be a felony.

[Dinner]

Jesus, I was in 3rd grade so I don't think I could be tried as an adult.

On a more recent note though when I was in college I used to not buy the text books to several of my classes (who wants to pay $80 for a book and then have the school say they'll only buy it back for $4?) so I'd check the book out from the RBR (the reserve book room) which was basically the secion of the University's library where you could check out books for 3 hours at a time. The problem was the night before the test there would be a big line for the book so I'd check it out the day before and spend all night studying with it then return it, pay the fine, and get a good grade on the test. As an added bonus the other people usually didn't do well on the test so the curve became that much larger. Harsh, but sometimes a college guy needs to look out for #1.

[Kuciwalker]

monkspider... I hope you're joking

[monkspider]

Originally posted by skywalker
monkspider... I hope you're joking

Nope, I honestly support people getting 25 to life for being a couple days late on their kid's copy of Green Eggs and Ham.

(wait for it)




(there it is)

[st_swithin]

GoddAMN that was funny! Nice one, Dorothy.

I'd have crapped out my liver again, if I'd had more than 1.