Appearently i've fallen victim to mistaking age for maturity and responsibility, and i'm learning my lesson the hard way.

in march, i signed out 4 library books for john mackenzie, a man in my anthropology class, because we were doing a group project together, and he didn't have his card with him.

this guy is a 40 year old perpetual student, whom i've known for a couple of years now, so i didn't expect it would be a problem..

at the end of the semester i noticed i had 5 or 6 dollars in late fees for those books, so i wrote john an email and spoke to him in class- reminding him to return those books for me. he said, oh yea- sorry, sure sure, i'll return them tomorrow.

i didn't think much of it again until this week, when i recieved a bill for $409.50 in library late fees and book replacement charges!!

all i had was his name and email, but he hasn't answered any email, so i called the school trying to get any contact info they had. all i got was an address where he supposedly lived in 2002. so i'm gonna try writing to him there.. the phone number is disconnected though.

so suffice it to say- ok ok, i've learned my lesson. NO One is trust worthy with library books.