Drat- I've been burned by the library again! Curse those exorbitant $1.25 per day late fees on movies. Well, it's actually a conundrum of my own making, but yet again I owe the library $10 in fees and can't check out books until I cough up the cash. I feel so virtuous by renting movies at the library for free, but then they get you on the back end. I got an overdue notice today saying three movies were due...three days ago. That's information that would have been useful...THREE DAYS AGO!! Gotta keep a closer eye on these things. In the fees I've paid lately, I could have bought the movies myself.
On a related note regarding library Nazis, I returned a book that got a little chocolate milk spilled on it. Not enough to render it unreadable, by any stretch of the imagination. Not two minutes after I had slipped the book back into the return slot, I heard my name called over the library intercom. I went to the front and was promptly informed that they could not accept this book and I had to buy it from them at the full cover price. I quickly offered to get a copy off the Internet for much cheaper, but they said it wouldn't be archival library quality. Huh? The exact same copy? They probably get them off Amazon.com as well. So $17 later I own a copy of a book I didn't even like enough to read when I checked it out. Sigh... Don't get me wrong, I love the library, but lately it seems we have a love/hate relationship.
What's your library story? Are you a library junkie or would you prefer to just go to the bookstore and get the book yourself and not deal with the hassle of overdue fees, waiting lists, etc.?
