IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE???
I walked
into my school library only to be stopped at the door. Even after I had shown
the receipt required for does that didn’t have the Library ID card yet,
The mean
operating officer asked me to move to the other way so others could get through
the door.
I kept
looking at him questioningly until he said. “Where is the stamped receipt?”
“I have it
at home” I replied honestly still not getting any of his gist.
“I can’t allow you in without the stamped
school fees receipt” he said.
“But the
instruction was to come with your school fees receipt until you get your ID, I
dint hear anything about presenting the receipt that was stamped by the
library.
He turned to make sure the electronic door was
opened every time to the trooping student and to make sure nobody without an ID
entered. I stood patiently at the side hoping he would consider me. Some good seconds passed on and he said
nothing. Meanwhile some more people piled behind me, obviously being in the
same predicament. Most of them left feeling disappointed.
“Excuse me
sir” I decided to say something, hoping a little plea might make him understand.
“My room is a little far I said, I would love to and get the stamped one but if
I did I would be able to come here again and also I had no idea it was the
stamped one that was only allowed now.” I said this in the meekest of ways I could
ever come up with, using the hope that nobody has ever turned down my innocent
face.
Then he turned
to me and said coldly “Ignorance is no excuse.”
