Chapter 13
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It's Wednesday, and it's comforting to think that half of the week has passed, and I'm going to have to talk to my son when he gets out of school on Friday.
Actually, Thursday is only halfway through the week, but why does it feel like I'm starting to lose my energy at work on Wednesday? Is it because of the existence of weekends that I have the illusion that I only have to work for five days? Could it be that the Monday syndrome is so strong that I have to turn on the pension mode after Tuesday?
I think the most likely thing is because for my son, half of the week has passed, and my life revolves around my wife and son, not to mention that now my son is in his third year of high school, although there is no particularly obvious change in the whole family, but quietly my son has become the axis of our family, and I can't live according to his schedule!
Since there are more aunts and uncles who come to the library, my free time to get off work has been moved back, but no matter what, it is earlier than the prescribed time to get off work, like today, the aunts and uncles left the library one after another before half past ten, and I can almost get off work, anyway, after they leave, no one will smell the aroma of books in the library that day. What the? Can I sniff? I come here every day to work, and I have long been indifferent to the smell of ink, isn't there a word called "strange or not"? Those who work in the bakery every day must understand my feelings, and they smoke sweet oil and gas every day, and I guess they will soon smell and want to vomit.
Of course, I'm talking about almost being able to get off work, that's not really off work, otherwise the card sold in the morning will not be used, this card is not only played when you go to work in the morning, but also when you go to work in the afternoon, and you have to play when you get off work in the evening, three times a day, before you get a full day of work, otherwise you will be absent from work. The leader thinks this trick is not afraid that we are too idle on weekdays, and everyone runs home, and there are few people in this huge library to read books. I also don't understand, a library, and not a celebrity Internet celebrity, what kind of popularity can be used, there are more people in the library, but it is not convenient for the preservation of books and paper, there are more people, the more carbon dioxide exhaled, the temperature in the museum is high, and the paper will accelerate aging, which is similar to the principle that the murals of the Mogao Grottoes will disappear, they are all chemical principles.
Besides, the people in our library are also very principled, we will arrange a duty schedule by ourselves, to who is on duty, who will open from 9 o'clock in the morning, to 6 o'clock in the evening to close the library, has been in the library, to provide services for readers while providing cover for the people who slip away, so even if most people slip the number, but the library is still serviced, and the number of people on duty we arrange is completely reasonable, definitely not like the bank, when everyone has time to handle business on the weekend, The bank staff also happened to rest, and then there were more people and fewer windows, and our library was also full of people on weekends, so on weekends, we were all at work to ensure that everyone borrowed and returned books without queuing or congestion, although most of the people who came brought their own books.
But since this fingerprint punch card machine was built, even when they were not on duty, everyone had to walk around the library three times to get out, so you can imagine how much everyone hates this punch card system. When I first started punching in, the survival time of a punch card machine could not exceed two weeks, and everyone complained that the punch card machine was unreliable and always broke down, so the maintenance staff of the punch card machine also became a frequent visitor to the library during that time.
But what's the use of coming so often? Today, Lao Li punched in while drinking water, and accidentally knocked over the water on the punch card machine, and tomorrow the calf put his hand on the punch card machine, and dropped the punch card machine on the ground without paying attention, and the day after tomorrow, I don't know who accidentally kicked the plug of the punch card machine loose. Every time the maintenance personnel of the punch card machine come to repair, they can always see all kinds of unknown liquids on the punch card machine, and sometimes solids, such as tea, cigarette ash, pepper and salt, and soil......
So, in the last week of the 60-day unconditional return warranty period of the punch card machine, the maintenance staff of the punch card machine directly took a brand new punch card machine to the library, and when it came, it didn't leave, took out the little Mazha he brought, sat next to the new punch card machine, and repaired the old punch card machine that failed. Then Lao Li went to punch in while drinking water, and came back to tell us after punching the card, he used to ask the maintenance staff, why didn't he go to the shop to repair, and people replied that the punch card machine was old and problematic, repaired and broken, this is already the third machine for us to change, he was about to be scolded to death by the boss, and was deducted from his salary, anyway, the boss in the store also looked at him unpleasantly, rather than go back to provoke the boss to be angry, it is better to stay here and think about how to repair the machine better. After Lao Li finished speaking, he unscrewed the lid of the cup, took a sip of water, and then said that he planned to change to a cup that was easier to hold, but now this cup is too big and heavy, and it is a little difficult to hold. After listening to it, everyone also responded to Lao Li's words: It's not too late to change the cup.
Xiao Luo, a maintenance worker, repaired the machine in the library for five days, and finally repaired the inexplicably malfunctioning punch card machine. However, he still left the new punch card machine for us, and said that it was not a new machine, and he was afraid that it would not be used by us very much. Then he sent the old machine back to the store, and came to our library again, saying that he was afraid that the machine would have problems again, and the boss said that if he received a call again in the next two days that the machine here was broken, he would not let him continue to work, so he planned to sit next to the new punch card machine for two more days, so that if the machine broke again, he could repair it immediately, and we could not call his boss.
In those two days, we told Xiao Luo many times that we could go in and sit in the seats in the museum, but Xiao Luo said that he had too much dust on his overalls, so he could just sit on the horse. So for those two days, Xiao Luo sat on the maza, and the mazaza was on our face.