A Public Service Announcement; Or, Havoc Wrought by the Seemingly-Benign

Yesterday I received what will probably become my favorite email from the HBLL ever. It is as follows


Dear Katie,

Thank you for returning the book "Sesame and Lilies" to the library on August 16, 2011.
However, this book was returned with a copious amount of pink post-it notes stuck inside of it.
Please contact me with any information you have about this incident or if it occurred previous to your checkout.
If you placed the notes there, we would ask you to please come in between the hours of 8am and 10pm to remove them.
Thank you for your help!

Sincerely,
*Name
Mutilation Secretary
HBLL
Provo

My bad! I'll admit I was downright gleeful to discover that there was a "mutilation secretary," especially since the "mutilation" I had wrought was so easily corrected. So, I skipped over to the HBLL and learned that Mutilation Secretaries are student employees and not recent M.A.'s (blast!). I also removed all the offending pink post it notes, while ruminating on their overall innocence. Then I returned to the carrels, recycled the former residents of "Sesame and Lilies," and supposed my adventure to be over.

Not so, my friends. The custodians of the JKB decided that last night was the perfect time to shampoo the carpets of the carrels. After they finished their noisy work, I returned to the carrels and worked on my 150H syllabus. Then, the unthinkable happened! I looked down and saw another pink post it note under the wheel of my desk chair. I bent down, picked it up and saw this


Sure enough, my seemingly-benign pink post-it note had stained and therefor mutilated the carpet. Luckily, the mutilation secretary only monitors library books, or I'd be out a lot of money right now.

The moral of the story: Exercise caution when wielding pink post-it notes; they are prone to mutilation.