Friday, August 05, 2005

Better Late Than Never?

Sometimes when you suddenly require a book from the public libraries, you go all out, riled up and excited, and key in your book title into the online catalogue, either from home or from the library itself.

*Click* "1 RESULT RETURNED..."

Eagerly, you click that and true enough, the library holds a copy of the book that you want! *Grin*

"Oh shucks! It's On Loan!" *Disappointed frown*

You think to yourself, "Oh well, it doesn't matter, I'll just head over to the library on the day that the book is due and get it right after the person returns it. Or I might just be lucky when the bloke returns it earlier."

So you click on "More Details..." and you see that the "Due Date" parameter says the book is already one, two weeks, or even a month overdue.

What's wrong with these people.

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