Library analogy
I was talking to an ex-classmate after lecture one day. She's due to graduate this May, and I enquired after her employment situation.
"So what are you doing to do?"
"Get a job. Get married. Have kids. Well, I'm not so sure about the getting married and having kids part, considering I don't even have a boyfriend yet. But I do have a job. I start work a week after graduation -- would you believe? Sometimes I just think it's unfair. Guys have it so much better -- they can just work and work until they're 40, accumulate all that money, and then get married. Us? At 40, who would want to marry us?"
Uh, actually... I was just asking about the job thing, I thought, but didn't find it polite to interrupt. I let her continue:
"As it is, once we graduate, we're RBR. When we hit 40, I think we become Closed Stacks."
If this is a joke shared by the NUS population, I hadn't heard of it. And it amused me to no end.
"So what are you doing to do?"
"Get a job. Get married. Have kids. Well, I'm not so sure about the getting married and having kids part, considering I don't even have a boyfriend yet. But I do have a job. I start work a week after graduation -- would you believe? Sometimes I just think it's unfair. Guys have it so much better -- they can just work and work until they're 40, accumulate all that money, and then get married. Us? At 40, who would want to marry us?"
Uh, actually... I was just asking about the job thing, I thought, but didn't find it polite to interrupt. I let her continue:
"As it is, once we graduate, we're RBR. When we hit 40, I think we become Closed Stacks."
If this is a joke shared by the NUS population, I hadn't heard of it. And it amused me to no end.
posted by Laughingcow at 10:31 pm
2 Comments:
in the law lib i think we used to have a rare book section.. haha.. that's for 50 year-old spinsters? kidding!
Scarcity is valuable okay?! :p
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