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Re: strange reference questions
I'm on evening desk duty til 10, and it's 9:58 at the reference desk. Two
young women come racing into the library and sprint over to the reference
desk, gasping for breath. The nearest dorm is 4 blocks away.
My finger is almost to 'enter' the shutdown on the desk computer.
"Quick," they gasp, "we need some help (puff, puff) on a paper."
My finger stops. "What class is the paper for?"
"It's (gasp, puff) for a speech...(puff, gasp) we have to give at (whew!)
8:45 tomorrow morning."
"Have you picked a topic for your speech?"
"Yes, we want to do it on procrastination."
[absolutely true story, give or take a puff or gasp]
Stephen
"Mild-Mannered Archivist by Day"
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