Thursday, November 13, 2008

The year Thanksgiving went missing

I just came home from volunteering at the elementary school. I've never volunteered in the library before but someone in one of The Pink's classes needed a sub so I gave it a shot. In case you're short on time, I'll net it out for you: I won't be doing that again anytime soon.

The librarian was less than enthused to have me because I hadn't been through "Library Volunteer Training." Oh well. I told her that I was a sub for someone else. Apparently the most desirable subs have been through training.

She directed me to the electronic catalog of books and showed me the search she'd pulled for Christmas books, and how to help the kids find them in the shelves.

I politely, very politely, asked her why the students weren't looking for Thanksgiving books since Thanksgiving was the next holiday. She brushed me off and said, "Oh, we're doing Christmas now." This made me unhappy since Thanksgiving has such great associations and it's NEXT on the calendar.

I said, "What kind of message does that send the students if we skip the holiday about giving thanks?" For this I received a dirty look.

Someone must have peed in her coffee this morning.

5 comments:

Kelly said...

Got to the last line and LOL - love your posts Leslie!

Paris said...

Nice humor. Your so funny.

Amy S. said...

Believe it or not -- she is hands down better than the last one. Our Learning Fund dollars at work. And people wonder why I alway say we do not need a full time librarian... that comment also brings dirty looks. Had you gone through the appropriate 1 hour training class, you would have learned about the decimal system (thanks Dewey) and learned how to use the every popular zapper. I think some parents arrive to their shift early just so they can use it. Looks like we should "gift" the library some Hanukkah and Kwanzaa books just for fun!?! Are you in?

Paige said...

I saw that volunteer library email and was afraid b/c I heard she's a witch- and I hadn't gone thru the training! You are a star for stepping up. And and even better star for saying something about skipping Thanksgiving. Tomorrow two of my kids have library days and I'm going to FORCE them to ask the librarian for Thanksgiving books.

Ron Hutzul said...

after that "attitude", I'm surprised **YOU** didn't pee in her coffee that afternoon....

I would have...