Funny Story

So at Christmas time I had been discussing a book with my mom that I had read when I was little about Native American Indians living in New Jersey.  It was a historical fiction book and really good, but it had gotten lost from out collection and we couldn't remember what it was called.  I remembered about it when I got home and with the power of the internet was able to find it.  It was called The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes and I ended up ordering it for my mom for her birthday.  I also mentioned it to Ben and asked him to get it for me from the library.  The didn't have it in the Brooklyn Library System so he put a hold on it in Manhattan.  This is a small press book from Rutgers University Press, not a best seller, not a book a lot of people are reading, so there were only a couple of copies in the system, and Ben had to wait for one to become available. During this time, Ben met up with his father and brother around Union Square for lunch one day. Afterwards, he and his brother both had errands to run nearby, so they did them together. One of the things Ben needed to do that day was return some books to the library, and pick up a movie that was on hold for him, and Sam had to return a book too, so they went by the library to do that. Sam didn't need to pick anything up, so he waited in line to return his book while Ben got his movie from the hold shelf. When it was his turn at the circulation desk, he noticed a copy of The Indians of New Jersey sitting on the counter, and assumed it was the copy he had put on hold. When he told the librarian that, however, Sam was surprised and said that he had just returned that book right then...Turns out that Sam had one of the 2 copies in the system checked out, and had to bring it in that day because he could no longer renew it because Ben had put a hold on it. We hadn't discussed this book with him at all, and it seemed completely bizarre that he had been reading it right then. Fortunately he was finished with it, so Ben didn't feel so bad about taking it from him. The librarian probably thought they were both really strange.

The book in question...