A man who lives in San Francisco sent a Bob Dylan double album that he had rented to a library in Ohio, 48 years after he was supposed to return it.
Howard Simon recently sent the album to Heights Libraries along with a letter apologizing for the lateness, according to a news release from the library system outside Cleveland.
Simon rented Dylan’s “Self Portrait” in 1973 while he was in the eighth grade at University Heights Middle School. Now 73, he says he found it among two other Dylan records in his personal vinyl collection.
“As a recent retiree, I am taking the opportunity to focus my attention on some of the many vignettes of life that have been neglected through career and family for many years,” Simon wrote. “I am returning with the letter an overdue item, by my count, approximately 17,480 days late at the time of writing this.”
The letter says the album cover is a bit damaged after traveling with him from University Heights to San Francisco with several stops in between, but the library says the records are in “great shape.”
Simon also sent the library a replacement fee of $ 175 for “Self Potrait” along with an album he recorded, “Western Reserve,” for possible inclusion in the library’s collection.
The library has no hard feelings, nor does it feel like Simon was wasting their time. In the press release they essentially told you not to worry, everything is fine.
“The funny thing is that we no longer charge overdue fines; As long as we get the item back, we don’t see the need to penalize people, ”said branch manager Sara Phillips. “We are grateful that Mr. Simon has returned the record. Now we can say that we are at hand ”.
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