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JacquelineDempsey posted:If you live in a city big enough to have some kind of youth center for poor kids' after-school programs, they might appreciate it. Rock Band is a nice gender neutral game without violence and stuff, it's pretty wholesome as far as video games go. Or maybe like a rehab/halfway house or women's shelter? Give the residents something fun to distract from their woes that involves music and isn't super competitive or just mindless watching tv. IDK, just spitballin' here, these could be terrible ideas, but it's what sprung to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Otaq2tmNMM
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Cythereal posted:Sorry for double posting, but it's been that kind of weekend. That'll set you back at least a bronze spintria.
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I never posted my story here. I volunteer at my local library - community-run because of budget cuts, vote Labour, tar and feather Tories and yellow Tories, etc etc. Most of the staff are women in their 60s and above, because who else has free time at 11am on a Thursday morning? (other than me). So that morning, the phone rings, and a guy is asking if we take donations. The donations processing corner is kind of overstocked at the moment, but I never like to say no to free books. He says he'll be round later today. I come back from a bathroom break to see a big guy bringing in a giant cardboard box. Which he dumps on top of two other giant cardboard boxes. "I'll get the others from the car," he says. The librarian on shift with me comes over and asks if I've had a phonecall this morning that I forgot to mention. I consider moving to Mexico. By the time he's left, there are six huge boxes filled with books. We can barely even find space to put the boxes - luckily I find some space under the shelves in the children's section. We decide, okay, let's open the boxes up and see what condition they're in. If they're all yellowing then we have an excuse to just dump them out. So I open one of the boxes, and pick out a book. It's in good condition - white pages, no dog-earing - and it has two men on the cover with their nipples out. I turn over to the blurb and it's Amazon gay werewolf porn. I pull out another book. Nipples out, gay werewolf porn. Every book in that box is either an old bodice-ripper, Amazon self-published gay werewolf porn, or one single copy of the Idiot's Guide to Yorkshire Terriers, which for some reason fills me with more dread than anything else. Like I said, the only people we tend to have in at this time on a Thursday are women in their 60s and above. None of them have ever seen anything like this before. One asks, "is it explicit?" I open up one of the books, see the words "rhythmic stroking", close it, and say "yes". They ask how I know what gay werewolf porn is. I don't know how to answer. Then someone asks, "are all the boxes full of this?" This is when I remember that I put the other boxes in the children's section. Thank god, we don't have any kids in, because the answer is "yes". There are six large boxes of gay werewolf porn and bodice rippers in our library, and in our children's section, because of me, and the library coordinator is coming in this afternoon. Someone is suggesting we put them in the bin, someone else is suggesting we leave them on the doorstep of a nearby library, but I realise the only way these books are leaving the library before the afternoon shift, when the mums and kids will start to come in, is if I phone the guy back and ask him to please take away his six boxes of werewolf porn. To his credit, he agrees to take them back, but only if I leave them out by the gate. While I'm bringing them out, I have time to think, and I remember he had an old man with him when he brought the boxes, who seemed very upset about something. I can't verify any of this, of course, but I think A) this was his dad, and B) this was his dad's entire porn library. The boxes were gone by the time I came off shift, and I hope the dad managed to keep his favourites. So that question from the job interview - what was your worst mistake and how did you fix it? I now have an answer.
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