Harriet the Spy - My Library Volunteer Hours

I volunteer at my public library.

Each shift, I pull patron requests, and this morning, one kid ordered every single tiger book in the entire branch, both English and Spanish.

I am intrigued.

I’m not allowed to pry into the identities of the requests, but I like to imagine it’s a kid like me, who went bonkers on “ocelots” one sixties summer at my childhood public library.

Yes, we volunteers have to sign confidentiality agreements, NDAs. It’s necessary! I privately laugh at all the improper things I could get up to, if allowed to run wild.

I could improperly call the woman (it’s gotta be a woman) who’s requesting the “God Has a Plan” titles. You know what I’d send her instead?