Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Books, Smelling

Never let your library patrons know that the romanticized "book smell" they love so much is actually just a mixture of burned popcorn from the staff microwave, carpet mildew from the children's section, and sweaty teenagers making out in the stairway.

3 comments:

Lib. Tech. from Canadia said...

Don't forget bum farts (pun intended).

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Monster Librarian said...

Is it wrong that after reading that, I still LOVE that smell.