Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The voting public

 





I am on the phones for the first hour my library is open on Indigenous Peoples' Day. I receive 879 phone calls asking if we are open today.

Yes, we are.

For the next hour after that I am at the front desk of the library, so I walk out to replace the people who were already out there.

"It was wall-to-wall phone calls asking if we were open back there." I tell them. "At least you probably didn't have to answer that question from people at the front desk."

The desk people looked at each other a little sadly. "Actually, we kind of did."









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