I have many more thoughts about our forced retirement, but I thought you’d get a smile out of a short story from my library world instead.
A patron dropped off a bunch of books to be checked back into the library this evening. I didn’t actually see the patron, just heard the thunk of books landing inside the drop box. Eventually I had a moment so I dug them out of the box and began scanning. Here’s a list of titles:
125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life
Dating Makes You Want to Die; but you have to do it anyway
You Didn’t Hear It From Us – Two Bartenders serve women the truth about men
Never Kiss a Frog – A girl’s guide to creatures from the dating swamp
How to Date Men
I started to giggle. Softly of course, it is after all, a library. My immediate thought was that if she wants to date more men she probably needs to get out of the library. On the other hand, some of the nicest guys I’ve ever met go to a library regularly…so maybe she’s onto something!
Change Is Hard 
June 3, 2009 at 11:32 am
What, no Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing? It’s fiction, but the title story is very much on topic.
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June 3, 2009 at 1:55 pm
A girl guide to understand sports….that might also be a good one…..personally I just leave dear heart to his sport and go off and do something else 🙂
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June 3, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Boy, the library is just full of books I didn’t even know existed!
I love the “Dating make you want to die!” one. That’s great.
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June 3, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Hmmm, a while back I heard about a dating book related to the type of dog a person owned.
Despite being a tumble weed for a vast mid section of my life, I never figured out the dating scene. I think twenty addresses, fifteen cities and three countries would qualify one for tumble weed status.
If there was any advice I would give, it would be if you like dogs, get a dog. On the whole dog people are nicer, more grounded and realistic in their dealings with other people. Wish I had figured that one early on in life.
The Collies Dog Dad
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