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San Francisco man returns Bob Dylan album to library - 48 years overdue
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:46 am
by Claude Balls
Recently retired and with some extra time on his hands, Howard Simon sat in his Sunset District home flipping through his collection of about 3,000 vinyl albums when he stopped in the Bob Dylan section and noticed a copy of “Self Portrait,” which he had checked out from the University Heights Library in Ohio in 1973 and never returned.
So Simon, 62, packed up the album he’d borrowed as an eighth-grader and mailed it back to the library — 48 years late.
He included a letter of apology and explanation.
“As a recent retiree, I am taking the opportunity to turn my attention to some of the many vignettes of life that by dint of career and family have been neglected these many years,” he wrote. “In that context, I am returning with this letter an overdue item (by my count, approximately 17,480 days overdue as of this writing)….it’s quite late, and I’m quite sorry!”
Simon also included a $175 check — “a tithe, if you will,” he said, or about 10% of what the dime-a-day late fee in effect in July 1973 would have added up to.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/artic ... 218023.php
Re: San Francisco man returns Bob Dylan album to library - 48 years overdue
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:14 am
by Redpig59
I wonder how that felt?
Re: San Francisco man returns Bob Dylan album to library - 48 years overdue
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:27 am
by Gaspode
"the Bob Dylan section"
That far too organized for me, I have a "I know I've got it somewhere section" . The fun is in the search and you always find an album you've forgotten about that makes it all worthwhile
Re: San Francisco man returns Bob Dylan album to library - 48 years overdue
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:53 am
by Julian Mince
Gaspode wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:27 am
"the Bob Dylan section"
That far too organized for me, I have a "I know I've got it somewhere section" . The fun is in the search and you always find an album you've forgotten about that makes it all worthwhile
Oh no! Mine had to be chronological alphabetically otherwise I lost it. Anyone who messed with it got a good kicking. I say "had", "lost" and "messed" because I'm all on Spotify now.
Re: San Francisco man returns Bob Dylan album to library - 48 years overdue
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:46 am
by Phillip Phlopp
When we were clearing out the annexe I came across a book that contained the best articles and cartoons from Punch magazine (now dearly departed). It looked familiar and my gob was well and truly smacked when I turned to the first page and saw it belonged to Maidstone Technical High School for Boys (my old alma mater) and it should have been returned to the school library in September 1970.
TBH, it is full of racial and gender stereotype cartoons that would produce much swooning and pearl clutching should it be seen by a modern day teacher. I will keep it safe for when I need a good snigger.
Re: San Francisco man returns Bob Dylan album to library - 48 years overdue
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:21 pm
by Julian Mince
Phillip Phlopp wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:46 am
I will keep it safe for when I need a good nigger.
Steady!
Re: San Francisco man returns Bob Dylan album to library - 48 years overdue
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 2:34 am
by Psmith
Phillip Phlopp wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:46 am
When we were clearing out the annexe I came across a book that contained the best articles and cartoons from Punch magazine (now dearly departed). It looked familiar and my gob was well and truly smacked when I turned to the first page and saw it belonged to Maidstone Technical High School for Boys (my old alma mater) and it should have been returned to the school library in September 1970.
TBH, it is full of racial and gender stereotype cartoons that would produce much swooning and pearl clutching should it be seen by a modern day teacher. I will keep it safe for when I need a good snigger.
I only ever bought Punch when I went on the train and left it when I got off.
Hopefully none of the lower classes picked it up.
Re: San Francisco man returns Bob Dylan album to library - 48 years overdue
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 7:03 am
by Phillip Phlopp
Julian Mince wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:21 pm
Phillip Phlopp wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:46 am
I will keep it safe for when I need a good nigger.
Steady!
Gasp!
Re: San Francisco man returns Bob Dylan album to library - 48 years overdue
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 7:10 am
by Phillip Phlopp
Psmith wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 2:34 am
Phillip Phlopp wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:46 am
When we were clearing out the annexe I came across a book that contained the best articles and cartoons from Punch magazine (now dearly departed). It looked familiar and my gob was well and truly smacked when I turned to the first page and saw it belonged to Maidstone Technical High School for Boys (my old alma mater) and it should have been returned to the school library in September 1970.
TBH, it is full of racial and gender stereotype cartoons that would produce much swooning and pearl clutching should it be seen by a modern day teacher. I will keep it safe for when I need a good snigger.
I only ever bought Punch when I went on the train and left it when I got off.
Hopefully none of the lower classes picked it up.
That was a Punch magazine wrapped around a copy of Playboy?