Tuesday I wanted to take the kids to story time after I dropped off the car pool kids at school so I was busy getting the books together, shoes on, hair done, backpacks together etc. Finally it was 9 and I was pushing being late so I hurried the kids to the car with my two big book bags that I was going to put in the trunk. I went to put the books in and the door was LOCKED! When do I ever lock the car, especially in the garage. I am sure a child pushed the lock button on the remote...anyway. I went and unlocked the car, buckled in David and went to help Sarah find something she needed for school all with the pressing feeling that three other kids needed to be picked up and on time for school. We found whatever it was Sarah was looking for and hopped in the car and went to pick up the other kids. As I was driving back down our street I noticed my purse and the two book bags at the end of the driveway. Yep, I must have dragged them to the street. The bags were thrashed. I went to the library and turned them in. The next day I received a pleasant e-mail from the library saying that I had turned in 3 damaged books and it would be $55 to replace them. I knew that there was one that FOR SURE was damaged, but I wondered about the other ones. Here are some pictures of my $55 mistake.
I thought they were really picky about the bug and 123 book, the hole book well that was damaged. The other ones had crushed corners. Oh well. we have 3 new lovely books and it could have been A LOT worse!
2 comments:
You know what? At least you got to keep the books. A friend's little girl crumpled a few pages out of 2 books, and they MADE her pay and they kept the hardly damaged books. That's just wrong.
Ouch! Where do they buy their books? I'd have asked if I could buy those exact books myself and donate them in their place. Then get good deals on Amazon or someplace. Doubt they'd allow that, but that's a lot of money for 3 books!
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