Feb 14, 2009
{ Saturday }
-ExcellentSeen and overheard on this busy Saturday afternoon at the library:
Woman in line to the Spanish speaking family behind her:
“Are you Spanish?”
“yes”
“Mexicans? You are from Mexico?”
“no”
“You are such a nice Mexican family! I love Mexicans
“Excuse me, Miss? I didn’t know the library has pornography.”
“Neither did I.”
“You just leave these magazines sitting around with all these kids running through here?"
“Sir, That’s Cosmo. It’s an adult magazine, and this is the adult collection.”
“Well it says orgasm right on the cover. I don’t want to sit here staring at this pornography.”
"How about I put that back on the shelving cart?"
"Can I get this in English? It says it’s a foreign film.”
"It says here on the back that this is a Dutch film. It has English subtitles.”
“I want the English one. I don’t want subtitles.”
“There is no English one. This is a Dutch film. That’s what foreign means.”
“Well fuck that. I don’t see why you have movies if they aren’t even in English.”
The same Spanish family accosted again:
“What are all your names?”
“Ramirez.”
“Jaun? Jaun’s such a nice name for a Mexican.”
“No, Ramirez.”
“That’s nice.”
“Can I borrow a phone?”
(They are kind of attached to my desk.)
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