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My Colleagues at the Lending Library Are Crazy Party Animals

December 1, 2024 4 Comments

By Chris Cottom

I imagined our Christmas Social being as Bacchanalian as the autumn paperclip audit. Yet by six-thirty, Front-Desk Philippa is offering tequila body shots off her midriff, while Brenda from Special Collections is promising daily tantric sex if I’ll cash in my pension pot to go fifty-fifty on a Polynesian beach hut. Over by the vending machine, their oiled pecs gleaming, Mike and Gordie from Security are stripped to the waist for a best-of-three arm wrestle. When Muriel calls for nude Line Dancing, I sidle upstairs to the reference section for an hour alphabetizing physics textbooks. I know how to enjoy myself.

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  1. Ephra Behn says

    December 1, 2024 at 9:57 am

    Wow! Where is this Library? I want to meet these people!

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  2. Tracie Adams says

    December 4, 2024 at 7:59 am

    I laughed out loud. Several times. I was picturing that M&M commercial where the green candy says, “Oh, it’s THAT kind of party?” Haha, this was brilliant!

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  3. Ed Kratz says

    December 4, 2024 at 4:03 pm

    Great one. The title makes one to read this instantly. Immediately you understand the narrator is not sarcastic. And the ending is a great, funny twist.

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  4. Bud says

    December 4, 2024 at 5:06 pm

    Very funny! I really enjoyed it.

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