Flipping Out

So I have to enter with this. It is my defense for my actions in the past 20 minutes.

I was born and raised by a book lover. She takes pride in each and every book she has ever come across and passed this obsessive gene on to me. My mother is a librarian in my town, and therefore has instill the five rules of book ownership in me. They are as follows and I follow them to a T!

1- If you can't be careful when eating, don't eat while reading.
2- If you can't be careful when drinking, don't drink while reading.
3- Use a bookmark, they were invented for a reason. Dog-earing pages ruins the book.
4- Don't write in books unless you own them and you don't care about the condition.
5- If you borrow a book from someone, give it back in the same condition in which you were given it.

Now knowing this, I will tell you 5 highlights in the history of my book reading past.

1- I have always owned a bookmark. Actually I own about 25 bookmarks, all different types that I use in different circumstance. some even have places to jot down you page number and line to keep your place efectively. Others, and my most favorite are the ones that have magnets in them to align to the exact spot. I NEVER read a book without a bookmark, even if it means I have to make one.

2- I have never eaten, or drank overtop a book. The newspaper, or magazine, sure. NEVER a book. I am too affraid to get something on a book. Libraries have had fines for those types of things and I never had money to pay them, so I never took the risk, even with my own books.

3- I have never dog-eared a page except in a text book. honestly though I hardly ever did that either because I tended to use sticky notes a lot to mark important spaces and I always knew about where I ended up. I also hate when people dog ear my pages and it tends to make me a bit psychotic.

4- Whenever I borrow a book I treat it like a fragile doll. I don't leave it outside, or unattended in a house of maniacs. I tend to hide things and covet them as if they were treasure that I had to protect. Maybe that makes me obsessive, I think it means I give a crap.

5- I always return a book, or anything else I borrow for that matter, in the same condition in which it was given to me. Never have I ruined something and not offered to pay, or just buy it new in replacement. I feel EXTREMELY guilty when I do something that might be considered as ruining an item, and always treat that person with respect over the item, even if it is something simply like being splashed by a bus riding through a puddle on the way home, and it getting on the item I borrowed.

So my actions of the day are defended. Wanna know what I did?

i was doing some chores around the house, vacuuming and laundry, to help the family out cause I was feeling rather lazy. I went into the bedroom to put some clothes on the bed and spotted a brand new book of mine that I had let her borrow. I saw an unusually large gap in the book and went over to see of something was stuck in it. Nothing was, but the pages were dog-eared. In my head I flipped, choked, vomitted and screamed. Outwardly, I made a bookmark and shoved it into the pages. I sent her a message on her phone telling her that I noticed she didn't have one so I gave her one. In talking to her husband I would out that she had also been eating Red beans and rice over it the night before, and inside I seethed. I feel disrespected!

I may be flipping out over something stupid, but it is MY $24.95 something stupid. I am letting her borrow it, and I expect the same consideration given to my things as I give to hers. When I borrowed a sweater from her a month ago, I washed it after I used it, and I hung it back up in her room. I didn't let it sit on the floor for months and get moth ridden, and then return it. I respect her and expect nothing less. Am I crazy? I know some people will think I am, but do you?