Rose: Well, I for one, don’t think there’s such a thing as a totally rotten
human being. I think there’s some good in everybody. Well, maybe she’s
just one of those people that need to be shown some kindness like a
fellow I knew back home, Ernest T. Minky.
Ernest T. Minky was St. Olaf’s librarian. He was also our town’s only
dentist. His office was right in the library where he could do both
jobs at the same time. But everyone hated Minky! Well he seemed to enjoy
great pleasure in giving other people pain. They hated him so much that
nobody every went to the dentist or the library. In 1938, you could
tell if someone was from St. Olaf. They were illiterate and they had
teeth that looked like Indian corn!
I’m only half done. One summer, I worked up enough nerve to check out
the latest Nancy Drew mystery and Mr. Minky was stamping my book and
his tie caught in the stamping machine. He’d have choked to death if I
hadn’t cut his tie with my Girl Scout knife. Well, he was so overwhelmed
with gratitude, he let me check my book out for a whole week! Oh,
usually he’d only let you check a book out for an hour. Mr. Minky always
said, “Books belong in a library.”
The point is, some people you think are mean might just need a little bit of kindness.
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