Hysteritage

[Scene: State Library of Victoria]

Essentially it’s a large internet cafe with free WiFi, power plugs and no cafe.

The guy next to me had a bottle of coke on the table. He wasn’t drinking it. The lid was on.

A librarian came up and said that he had to remove himself and the bottle of coke from the library because of ‘heritage values’.

Really!

He was so shocked he didn’t know what to say.

I helped him out by suggesting that coke has been around since the 1880’s and must qualify for heritage status too.

Not funny apparently…