Mr. Screenplay Erases for Fourty minutes

Due to some changes in our policies at our library, one of our regular patrons was highly disturbed to learn that he could not continue to hang onto one of our library books, as someone had put a request on it. He ranted and raved and erased his pencil marks out of the book for FORTY MINUTES. The truly frightening thing? Assuming the book had been first purchased at his request four years ago - and no one else has ever requested it (which he claimed) - he would have been checking out and renewing this book (and most likely others) FOR FOUR YEARS.

MEIN GOTT IN HIMMEL - Just buy the damned book you idiot. Hell, you'd think in FOUR YEARS you'd have managed to scrape together enough change to have photocopied the whole thing (eight times over).