I started my current job four years ago today. Commemorate the moment in your heart.
I will commemorate it by telling you about an interaction with a little boy (about 9 years old) that a friend reminded me of recently.
Little Boy: I want a book about dragons.
MBC: What kind of book? Fiction or nonfiction?
Little Boy: What do fiction and nonfiction mean?
MBC: Fiction books are stories and nonfiction books are true--they're factual.
Little Boy (patiently and slowly, with pity for the librarian; in the manner of someone breaking the news to a small child about Santa Claus): Well, you KNOW, dragons aren't real. So, I think I need fiction.
I sent him to nonfiction.
3 comments:
Out of spite? Or are there really books about dragons in the non-fiction section?
Four years is a LONG TIME! I've never had a job that long.
What kind of librarian do you take me for? All the mythology about dragons is nonfiction.
Four years IS a long time. It's the longest I've ever stayed at a job.
Congratulations! I made it five in my last one and now have no idea what will happen next. :)
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