Library Emergency

A whole new kind of emergency.

I was working on my paper yesterday when one of the librarians rushed into the reference room, crossing the carpet in a rustling hustle that only a librarian could pull off. She whispered to the gentleman librarian at the desk, "THERE'S BEEN AN EMERGENCY!!" I pricked my ears, thinking by the panic in her voice that perhaps the fourth floor had been conquered by hostile forces, or valuable tomes were bursting into flames and shrieking satanic verses, or maybe one of the printers had achieved self awareness and was destroying humanity. The librarian continued breathlessly, "Tom's dropped a book on his foot. GET SOME ICE!!!" Stat.