Teen: Yo where your Doctor Seuss at?
Me: Downstairs, Children’s Department.
Teen: How I get there?
Me: My guess? You’d go down the stairs.
Teen: A’ight a’ight. Teacher says we can take out any two books we want and I don’t wanna read none so I’m takin easy stuff!
Me: Suit yourself.
Me, internally: You think you’re playing the system, but Seuss books are incredible and I still re-read them sometimes. I’d rather you read that than Twilight or some other garbage.
At least he was reading.
Exactly!