Monday, February 2, 2009

The Kindness Bandit: Poor Librarians Time to Give them a Break

Today's Kindness Bandit is giving thanks to poor librarians. I don't know about the library where you live, but here librarians have to put up with the following:
  • Garbage stashed in shelves.
  • Cranky book seekers, looking for a book that has not yet been released.
  • Booger infested children's DVDs.
  • People stampeding for computer time.
  • Individuals who seem to feel that the library is actually their home.
  • People talking loudly on cell phones. It's the library shhhhhhhh.
  • Limited respect for the Dewey decimal system
So, I decided to brighten the day of one library worker. I dropped a card into the library return box. I chose the most ridiculous card you could imagine.

Here is what I wrote:

I hope you are having a good day at work. If you are having a bad day then let me lift your spirits with a bad joke.
Q: Why did the cowboy get a dachshund?
A: Because someone told him to get along little doggie.
Hopefully your day is better than that joke.
Love-TKB

OK, so some of you are probably already familiar with that joke, but it's just too bad and I must share it with the world. Anyway, some random library employee will, at very least, be momentarily stunned by the bizarre joke. Hopefully it actually makes their day a bit better. We'll never know.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a lovely idea! DS loves dropping books into the return bin. I think I'll get him in on a Kindness Bandit hit (sans the bad joke...it's a little too early to start him on those ;-).

bel said...

What a great idea! I'm going to see if Pete wants to help me do that for our librarians. She knows all the best bad jokes!

(my word verification seems appropriate for this post: gratica)

Emily said...

Love it. My mom is a retired librarian and I know she would get a big kick out of that. And the puppies on the card go with the dog joke. Sweet!

E.K. said...

That card makes me laugh, I wish I had a shirt with those puppies. The shirt would also have to say "Thinking of you..."

RunwithSticks said...

That's too great :) I love the randomness of the card too.

Stacy Kraus McDonald said...

HA! That's wonderful - you're amazing!

Elizabeth said...

you rock the freekin' house!

our librarians are awesome. and the only time i go to the library is for story time on wednesday mornings, so there are lots of loud little kids around then . . . i don't know what it's like there at other times . . . but it's sure fun then. :)

affectioknit said...

What a great idea to brighten someone's day!

Melanie said...

love this. You rock! The card reminds me of those cat tees I wrote about! lol!

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