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*some details may have been enhanced for a more dramatic telling
A stormy afternoon, wind howls, lightning flashes, rain deluges down outside the library*. The doors slam open, in comes the patron, bedraggled from the long journey from their vehicle to the counter. Slowly the patron approaches as he recovers from his ordeal. As he reaches my station three books are removed from his pouch** and were pounded onto the counter before me.
"Attend! Attend, I say ye desk person! Not but a week past did I borrow these tomes from thy library, here is my card which shall prove my tale, and now I return to this place in dire need!" Lightning flashes. "My family calls for me in a land far from here and I must make the lengthy journey hence. The stars hath finally aligned and now 'tis the only time I may make the sojourn. Alas, the due date for these items shall expire before my trip is done and I do not wish to provoke the wrath of thy establishment. I need you to do the thing that extends the date on which I must return these works, even though the machine doth not permit me to do it when I hath more than a week remaining on the items."
Me: "Okay, I did the thing."
"Ye must understand! It is of vital importance that you do the thing! I shall be undertaking a great journey wherein I shall have to face uncountable dangers at terrible peril to my person! I shall cross great deserts! Ascend tall mountains! Ford raging rivers! I must insist you do the thing!"
Me: "I already did the thing, you're set."
"I will almost certainly meet my end in this journey! Even now my wife weeps for me, so certain is she of my eventual fate! My children have already mourned my passing! I shall go from here to sacrifice a virgin at Jupiter's altar*** for only by the blessings of the gods will I survive this ordeal! Take mercy upon a lost soul and do the-- I'm sorry what did you say?"
Me: "I took care of it five minutes ago, here's a reminder slip for the new due date. Have a good day!"
"Ah, uh very well then." And with this the patron exits the library.
Look, just because what's happening on your side is a production, it doesn't mean that my side has to be one too.
*It was actually sunny, pretty nice day all told.
**to the best of my memory he did not actually have a pouch
*** No virgins were harmed in the making of this post
A stormy afternoon, wind howls, lightning flashes, rain deluges down outside the library*. The doors slam open, in comes the patron, bedraggled from the long journey from their vehicle to the counter. Slowly the patron approaches as he recovers from his ordeal. As he reaches my station three books are removed from his pouch** and were pounded onto the counter before me.
"Attend! Attend, I say ye desk person! Not but a week past did I borrow these tomes from thy library, here is my card which shall prove my tale, and now I return to this place in dire need!" Lightning flashes. "My family calls for me in a land far from here and I must make the lengthy journey hence. The stars hath finally aligned and now 'tis the only time I may make the sojourn. Alas, the due date for these items shall expire before my trip is done and I do not wish to provoke the wrath of thy establishment. I need you to do the thing that extends the date on which I must return these works, even though the machine doth not permit me to do it when I hath more than a week remaining on the items."
Me: "Okay, I did the thing."
"Ye must understand! It is of vital importance that you do the thing! I shall be undertaking a great journey wherein I shall have to face uncountable dangers at terrible peril to my person! I shall cross great deserts! Ascend tall mountains! Ford raging rivers! I must insist you do the thing!"
Me: "I already did the thing, you're set."
"I will almost certainly meet my end in this journey! Even now my wife weeps for me, so certain is she of my eventual fate! My children have already mourned my passing! I shall go from here to sacrifice a virgin at Jupiter's altar*** for only by the blessings of the gods will I survive this ordeal! Take mercy upon a lost soul and do the-- I'm sorry what did you say?"
Me: "I took care of it five minutes ago, here's a reminder slip for the new due date. Have a good day!"
"Ah, uh very well then." And with this the patron exits the library.
Look, just because what's happening on your side is a production, it doesn't mean that my side has to be one too.
*It was actually sunny, pretty nice day all told.
**to the best of my memory he did not actually have a pouch
*** No virgins were harmed in the making of this post
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