You know that book that's sitting on your shelf gathering dust? You know, the one you were supposed to return to the library weeks ago and have yet to return? The one you glance at at least once a day and think "hmm, I should really return that" before shrugging and conveniently forgetting about it again? The one that prompted the letter from the library that you ignored? The one you think you'll only have to pay a fine for and then all will be well with the world again?
Well, you might want to consider finding the motivation to return that book. Heidi Dalibor didn't and it was a heck of a lot more trouble than she bargained for.
After borrowing two books last year, she never got around to returning them. She then ignored the various pleas from the library to take them back. The library got fed up with it and turned the case over to the police. Heidi received a court date and then ignored that too. The police knocked on her door with warrant in hand and hustled her off to jail where she remained until her $170.00 fine was paid.
All of that... for two library books (and a bit of idiocy) a year overdue.
I wonder what they do for one book 12 years overdue?
I can just see the dollar signs on my account now. Every day they add a few more cents and the ticker rolls forward a little bit more. By now, that fine is probably in the thousands. !2 years is a lot of ticking.
The librarian is probably foaming at the mouth right now, jumping up and down like the little Carvers from Diablo II, screaming "Rakanishu!" which I can only surmise is the Exorcist like equivalent to "I curse you!"
I bet her hair is falling out of the tightly wound bun right now too... Oh lord, please stop the messiness! It's not working in my favor. Every silvery strand that comes loose and tumbles down her back adds another dollar to my fine. I'll never be free! She'll haunt me all the days of my life! Every book I read will be about her! She'll say I have an evil plan to single handily destroy western civilization... one unreturned book at a time.
It reminds me of the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode in which the psychotic librarian plops his owners into a book that is 2 years overdue.
Hey... that's actually not a bad idea.
If she ever tracks me down, I'll just ask for the Courage option. Hubby and sis might look good fictionalize. I, however, am quite certain that jail is not the look for me.
All that orange?
Oh please God, no! No, I say! No! Anything but the orange!
*sigh* I really should have returned that book.
In high school, I had a few books that my mom kept forgetting to turn into the library (I didn't have a car at the time, so I couldn't return them myself). They ended up like 4 weeks overdue, and she had to pay a nice fine of $57.
That was not fun.
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57 dollars for 4 weeks is insane!
I don't even know what ever happened to the book I never returned. I moved to Florida to home school with my grandmother for the remainder of that school year and my dad just never returned it. I've officially listed it as MIA.
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