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Date Posted: 10:04:45 07/15/26 Wed
Author: JeffsFort
Subject: My Answer...
In reply to: JeffsFort 's message, "IMAGINE Magazine Question for 7/15 - "Your Summer Reading List""" on 22:10:11 06/05/26 Fri

One summer, I decided I could get out of doing my summer reading project by claiming I had lost my library card.

Back then, a library card was a manila card with a little metal identification plate embedded in it, so I figured losing it sounded serious and permanent. My story was that the librarian would not let me borrow anything without it, which meant I had been completely unable to get any of the books on the reading list.

I practiced the excuse until I sounded genuinely disappointed.

On the first day of school, I explained the whole unfortunate situation to my teacher. She listened patiently and then asked, “Why didn’t you have them look up your name and make you a replacement card?”

I had not prepared for that.

She explained that replacing a lost card cost about fifty cents and only took a few minutes. She knew this because she had tried the exact same excuse when she was a kid. Her own teacher had seen through it immediately and sent her back to the library with whatever the replacement fee was back then.

Then my teacher reached into her desk, placed two quarters in front of me, and said, “I believe the library is still open after school.”

That was when I learned teachers were once kids too—and they have had years to improve the traps their teachers used on them. LOL!

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