She is bubbly and smiling and filled with joy, our new BOCES volunteer. She has learned to greet each person openly and with interest. She takes it all in like an excited kindergartner on the first day of school, her voice sometimes squeaking with excitement, sometimes jumping registers without warning. I gave her the grand tour of the Library. Everything impressed her, especially when there were buttons to push.
Elevator buttons were a snap when we went upstairs. Compact shelves have fascinating buttons that beep and we tried out a half dozen. Handicap doors have big blue buttons and whoosh doors open with abandon. She loved pushing buttons. After seeing all the upstairs space (wow! this is a BIG library), I asked if she wanted to take the stairs down. No! The elevator - its got buttons.
Reminds me of a story I once read about a small construction company who hired a young man that couldn't resist pushing buttons. He pushed a button and closed a garage door down on a car and a dozen more expensive accidental button pushing incidents until the owner finally fired the kid. Despite repeated warnings, he just could not resist pushing every button he saw.
I never realized how many buttons one encounters in a normal day. On clothes, cars, computers, doors, appliances, TVs, remotes - the list is huge. My goal for the rest of today is to smile a huge smile every time I push a button, just like our volunteer. By the end of the day, a face lift will no longer be needed.
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