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Thrilling story.

Wed Apr 30, 2008, 12:44 PM
This amuses me far too much.

So I work Saturdays in a small local library that has just enough users to keep its funding. Around lunchtime, the whole place is a silent as the grave, so, in the absence of anything else to do, I stood at the counter doodling random animals on a piece of scrap paper. The previous week I'd filled up an entire page of aardvarks, my favourite animal to draw.

So after a while, the librarian comes over and starts going on about how great my little cartoons are and how I should look towards a career in book illustrations. I stand there, feeling immensely flattered, until she says "Those donkeys you drew last week were truly excellent."

  • Mood: Not Impressed
  • Listening to: What You Own - RENT
  • Reading: Sabriel - Garth Nix
  • Playing: Apollo Justice

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Aww! Well, she thought they were good though, ne?

Now, from what I remember of aardvarks, there's multiple differences between them and donkeys, so... perhaps the librarian is going blind? ^^;

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Could you smile when inside you just want to cry? (Want to cry)
What if I'd been the one to say goodbye? (Goodbye)
Could you smile when it hurts so deep inside?
And it never fades away...
:iconstormityne:
Hee. I feel like that's happened to me a lot, too...

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:iconlinzys:
People sometimes mistake my foxes for wolves...^^;
:iconwiltedayame:
Aw. That's sort of sad and sort of hilarious. Maybe you draw the aardvark holding up a sign with, "Hello, my name is Olly Aardvark" on it or something. But she probably needed glasses badly.

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:iconarylett-dawnsborough:
Oh wow, that is just sad... And at the same time, hilarious. XD

Don't worry about it, adults can be crazy about art sometimes. I've shown my father several pictures of dogs that I've drawn and he's mistaken them for rabbits!
:icontsuki--tsubasa:
lols, many lols. Dont worry if yuu remember everyone thought the shigure DOG plushie I made was a cat.....also I have problems drawing men. They usually come out as tomboy girls or really REALLY bishie (and I'm not a bishounen girl) us suffering artistic types have many trials lol! (btw CHUSHY JOB, god I'd LOVE to work in a library! Even though when people came to check books out I'd probably be like I'M READING WAIT lol)
:iconlemurkat:
I"d say she jsut needs a zoology lesson.

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:iconthehellsong:
Oh-hoh, thats sad and funny...

I usually have my girlie characters mistaken as guys. Especially Ashley, which is weird. O_O

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