Having issued forth hundreds of mildly amusing quips at the front desk of my library, or perhaps thousands, or possibly millions, over thirty-one years, I am aware that the number still to come is dwindling into the double digits, and maybe even soon the single digits. I have few clever quips to issue at the front desk of my library left in my life.
And so, as the curtain comes to a close on my career here, while I am still saying ridiculous things at the front desk of the library, I am eager to report each one of them.
And so it was that today a woman came to the front desk of my library to pick up her interlibrary loan copy of the DVD Phenomenon, starring John Travolta. As I handed the DVD over to her, in the process of checking it out, she said she was surprised that her local library didn't have a copy, and that she had to request it through interlibrary loan.
I was non plussed. I said that what surprised me is that the guy playing the Sweathog Vinnie Barbarino was starring in an actual movie!
The person checking out the DVD seemed to find this somewhat amusing, so I added:
"Did Arnold Horshack also go on to have an illustrious career?"
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