Bounce & Rhyme when your dh is persona non grata at the library

[bookthief]

So, years & years ago dh took a book out of our local library and lost it and ignored all the letters etc and has never gone back (idiot).

Now I want to take ds to Bounce & Rhyme but do you think they'll twig that he is son-of-a-library-abuser by our address?

I'm not very good at awkward situations or I'd just go in fess up and pay the fine. I'm going to have to amn't I. It's going to be really embarrassing.

[JintyB]

"Library bans baby over Dad's unpaid fines"

No, I don't think so. Doubt if they'll even notice tbh.

[PinkMartini]

Agree with Jingy.
And FGS whatever you do, don't offer to pay the fine.
I did that for DH. I anonymously sent a book back from Uni days which had been in a box with his Uni stuff. Felt all smug and good karma-ish about it all.
Until they sent a bill to my ILs house (DH's old address) for £55 as they'd replaced the missing book.

[PinkMartini]

Sorry meant Jinty!

[teafortwoandtwofortea]

I am persona non grata at our library. I try and make up for it by buying lots of thomas and friends books. DS hasn't twigged that theres a mecca of his favourite items out there, waiting to be discovered...

...But I owe them £80 so he never will!

[bookthief]

It's tempting but I've not really been to any mother & baby things up until now and I can just imagine going in to register ds, the klaxons sounding and all the other mums going hmm, bit of shunning to be done there.

You're right though, local authority libraries are unlikely to have particularly sophisticated links between tickets yes? Maybe I'll just go along this afternoon and register him and then it'll just be the usual 3 old men reading the papers that'll do the shunning if it goes awry.

[fishie]

bookthief 8 years!! its pretty likely they've had an amnesty and a new computer system anda change of council and really are you even sure the library is still there after all this time? in my library you don't have to be a member to go to activities anyway. you go along it will be fine.

[Spagblog]

My DH borrowed a Spanish Linguaphone set from the library and we went to Spain on holiday. While we were there we heard on the news that the library burnt down...DH said "Well, I don't need to return it now do I?"
And he never did.

[bookthief]

pmsl!

[OrmIrian]

I don't think they'll find out... and really don't think they'll care . Sins of the father not being visited upon the kids all that often these days.

However I do know how your DH feels. I lost a book when I was about 6 - and I was banned from the main library. Was forced to use the other tiddly little one on a bleak windy housing estate ...oh the shame

[PinkMartini]

teafortwo = can you not arrange some kind of amnesty too? I had £40 and I thought that was bad but "came to an arrangement."
Am much much much more disciplined about returning books now.

[bookthief]

Thanks to the Mumsnet Voice Of Reason (TM) ds now has a library ticket and a loan of That's not my kitten.

They appear to have no record of the previous infraction and encouraged by this I got myself a ticket too. I think I'm going to tell dh he's still banned though.

[ledodgy]

I am also persona non grata at my library. I finally joined again in 2004 when I moved house. I had to wait as I realised I had lots of books still out from my uni dissertation days To make things worse when I joined from this address the librarian started asking me if I was the same that lived at I said I wasn't Then it spiralled and she asked me if I think anybody had ever stole my identity etc I said I didn't think so and she finally let me join. I then got 2 books out for dd and 2 out for myself, read them and completley forgot about them. I got my sil to drop them off for me aobut 2 years later and haven't dared to show my face since. There is really no excuse as the library is literally a minute away from here.