"I want a list of my history."
"Oh we don't keep a record of what you check out."
"Last time they had a list for me. You don't see what I've checked out there?"
"All I have here is a list of the books you turned in late and have late fees for.
"Yeah, that's what I was talking about."
"Okay-"
"Can I get that list?"
"Sure, let me go-"
"Cause I should be able to see my history, they got it for me last time."
"Just one second Ma'am."
...
"Here you go."
"So help me understand your list. What am I seeing?"
"Here is the name of the book you turned in late and here is the late fee."
"Why doesn't it show the day the book was due?"
"It shows the date you turned them in."
"Well how do I know why I'm being charged this amount?"
"We charge 25 cents a day per item so-"
"Yes I understand how much you charge. But why should I be charged this amount? Your list doesn't make sense."
"Well-"
"Where's the due date?"
"The list just shows the date you turned them in, not the due date."
"Okay, well I can fight this." Goes to leave. Turns back around.
"Who can I talk to about this?"
"My supervisor."
"But where does the money go?"
"To my supervisor."
"Oh so she keeps the money and takes it home."
"No she would handle the transaction."
"But who gets the money. Who does the bookkeeping?"
"Uh..."
"Do you know what that is? How old are you?"
"Ma'am let me get you my supervisors card."
The late fee was 4 bucks.
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Friday, February 9, 2018
Dumbo and Bambi
Continuing my writing on Disney films that I took a break from well over a year ago.
I half love and half hate this movie.
On the one hand this movie beautifully conveys the love a mother has for her son. Mrs. Jumbo immediately embraces her son for who he his. It doesn't matter to her for one second that he has over large ears. What does matter to her is how horribly her son is treated by everyone else.
What makes no sense to me is the fact that over five minutes of screen time and a whole musical number is devoted to Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse "seeing pink elephants" and the fact that Dumbo learns to fly is an after thought of the last two minutes of the movie.
I mean the movie is already pretty short. Why spend over five minutes of the film on what could arguably be the least important part of it? And then why only mention Dumbo learns to fly right at the very end? Growing up the fact that Dumbo could fly was one of the few things I even remembered about the movie. They have a ride at Disneyland about it. But in the film it's not really treated like a big plot point.
My rating of the film:6/10
Moving on to Bambi. The truth is I really don't have too much to say about this one. I enjoy the animation. Disney actually reuses the animation from Bambi in a lot of his other films. The music is fine. Nothing too memorable actually. The characters are cute. I mean baby deer, bunnies, birds and even skunks are pretty damn precious.
But the story frankly is kind of a snooze. Baby deer is born. He makes friends. His mother dies. He grows up. He has his own baby deer. And that is pretty much it. Everyone always references this movie as being monumentally sad as well. And sure it was sad. But maybe I just expect more tragedy now to really have an effect. I mean when I saw Coco the other day I bawled my eyes out. But with Bambi? Not so much.
My rating of the film: 6/10
Films in order of preference so far:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Bambi
Dumbo
Pinocchio
Fantasia
I half love and half hate this movie.
On the one hand this movie beautifully conveys the love a mother has for her son. Mrs. Jumbo immediately embraces her son for who he his. It doesn't matter to her for one second that he has over large ears. What does matter to her is how horribly her son is treated by everyone else.
What makes no sense to me is the fact that over five minutes of screen time and a whole musical number is devoted to Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse "seeing pink elephants" and the fact that Dumbo learns to fly is an after thought of the last two minutes of the movie.
I mean the movie is already pretty short. Why spend over five minutes of the film on what could arguably be the least important part of it? And then why only mention Dumbo learns to fly right at the very end? Growing up the fact that Dumbo could fly was one of the few things I even remembered about the movie. They have a ride at Disneyland about it. But in the film it's not really treated like a big plot point.
My rating of the film:6/10
Moving on to Bambi. The truth is I really don't have too much to say about this one. I enjoy the animation. Disney actually reuses the animation from Bambi in a lot of his other films. The music is fine. Nothing too memorable actually. The characters are cute. I mean baby deer, bunnies, birds and even skunks are pretty damn precious.
But the story frankly is kind of a snooze. Baby deer is born. He makes friends. His mother dies. He grows up. He has his own baby deer. And that is pretty much it. Everyone always references this movie as being monumentally sad as well. And sure it was sad. But maybe I just expect more tragedy now to really have an effect. I mean when I saw Coco the other day I bawled my eyes out. But with Bambi? Not so much.
My rating of the film: 6/10
Films in order of preference so far:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Bambi
Dumbo
Pinocchio
Fantasia
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