"Nancy Young" > wrote in
:

> Andy wrote:
>> Nancy Young said...
>>
>>> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>
>> I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
>> back, I don't remember why.
>>
>
> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>
> nancy
>

Back when they invented dirt, they used the same books for more than 1 or
2 years in a row. And if you damaged one you had to pay for it at the end
of the year. So they wanted you to use covers to protect them.

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