Ah...
Yeorobeun,
Happy Mooncake Festival aka
Chuseok and
Day of the Francisco Morazan(Honduras) and
Unity Day (National)(Germany) and
Happy World Temperance Day to
everyone around the world!
My day today:
After this morning's rather interesting lecture, I took a detour to get to my uni library. Ah.. the overdue fines are already over 10 bucks, need to clear them a bit before I can borrow books again. Plus, had some books to renew again.
I love the library. Because it has so many books, and facilities are not bad, plus some pretty friendly library staff. Or maybe it's just because i have an everlasting affinity for books :)
Self-check machine
I love how one can check out books for themselves, and return them via this 24 hour automated book drop. Something that looks like this:
How to use:
Drop your book on the conveyor belt, one at a time. Do not put your arm in, else you'll end up calling the fire department. When you are done, press 'Print receipt' on the touch screen to get the receipt stating the books you have returned.
So I went up to the automated book drop, and sees a girl with an armload of books in front of me...
She must have read the 'How to use' instructions by the side of the machine. CAUSE SHE WAS RETURNING HER BOOKS ONE BY ONE! I mean, not the 'wait for first book to disappear on conveyor belt then put another onto belt' type, but the 'return one book, print receipt, wait for receipt, return another book again' type.
Oh my, I was quite... surprised? I thought she was returning books for her friends or something, so maybe she wanna separate the books of different accounts. But whoa, all the books to be returned the same way? Either she must have many friends, or she really took the 'one at a time' on the instruction very literally.
And no, I did not stop her or anything. Have to admit I was being peculiar and smiling at her back all the way though. Even after she went away with all 8 or 9 pieces of small receipts in hand. Awh... must be a first year student or something.
I do not know if many people do this, I mean, the one at a time thingy. I do hope not, it'd be quite funny for people who sees it.
Still, it's amusing don't you think? How this one sentence can be interpreted so literally. What's a better phrase to prevent future misunderstandings?
.
Chuseok and
Day of the Francisco Morazan(Honduras) and
Unity Day (National)(Germany) and
Happy World Temperance Day to
everyone around the world!
My day today:
After this morning's rather interesting lecture, I took a detour to get to my uni library. Ah.. the overdue fines are already over 10 bucks, need to clear them a bit before I can borrow books again. Plus, had some books to renew again.
I love the library. Because it has so many books, and facilities are not bad, plus some pretty friendly library staff. Or maybe it's just because i have an everlasting affinity for books :)
Self-check machineI love how one can check out books for themselves, and return them via this 24 hour automated book drop. Something that looks like this:
How to use:Drop your book on the conveyor belt, one at a time. Do not put your arm in, else you'll end up calling the fire department. When you are done, press 'Print receipt' on the touch screen to get the receipt stating the books you have returned.
So I went up to the automated book drop, and sees a girl with an armload of books in front of me...
She must have read the 'How to use' instructions by the side of the machine. CAUSE SHE WAS RETURNING HER BOOKS ONE BY ONE! I mean, not the 'wait for first book to disappear on conveyor belt then put another onto belt' type, but the 'return one book, print receipt, wait for receipt, return another book again' type.
Oh my, I was quite... surprised? I thought she was returning books for her friends or something, so maybe she wanna separate the books of different accounts. But whoa, all the books to be returned the same way? Either she must have many friends, or she really took the 'one at a time' on the instruction very literally.
And no, I did not stop her or anything. Have to admit I was being peculiar and smiling at her back all the way though. Even after she went away with all 8 or 9 pieces of small receipts in hand. Awh... must be a first year student or something.
I do not know if many people do this, I mean, the one at a time thingy. I do hope not, it'd be quite funny for people who sees it.
Still, it's amusing don't you think? How this one sentence can be interpreted so literally. What's a better phrase to prevent future misunderstandings?
.
1 comment:
My uni is having something similar oso hahaha.. but the 24 hours book drops is always out of order.
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