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March 28, 2006
Post office peon to go insane
The rhetOracle is a mock issue of Hamline's undergraduate newspaper, the Oracle. We are trying to be as derisive as possible. Please enjoy the farcical nature of this issue or at least, ignore us.
After being just another unknown face in the crowd at Hamline for the past three years, student mail room worker Tom Prondzinski is finally receiving his much deserved dues. He is going to be forever immortalized in children’s literature with his experiences at Hamline.
The book, due out in late June, is titled Tommy Goes Postal, and tells of his life over the past three years at school and work. The publishing company that signed him, Blue Wonders, believes his experiences at Hamline merit a children’s book.
The company declined to do an interview at this time, but did leave this comment: “We have been looking at many potential students at numerous campuses, but Tom won us over with his quiet charm.”
This “quiet charm” is a charm that Tom has not made apparent to any students on campus however. The consensus of all students questioned about whether they knew Tom was an overwhelming “NO.”
When one student was told that he worked in the mail room, all she had to say was, “Maybe instead of writing a book, Tom should be working on fixing the shitty service in the mail room.” She did not know Tom either.
The publishing company has released a few sample pages of Tom’s upcoming book to give a general idea about what the story is going to be like. As of right now, page three discusses Tom’s extensive nightlife, involving an intense one player game of Sim City 3000, followed by some scrapbook making with the weekly photos he takes of the campus squirrels.
Page seven is about his life at work in the mail room; it is a three days a week job and he works at the window. No one looks him in the eyes and no one thanks him.
It is a safe assumption is that this children’s book does not end on a high note. It contains rather personal topics, with very little peer interactions present. It does, however, portray a very accurate description of the life of the quiet college student; at least Blue Wonders Publishing, Inc. believes it does.
Other people may interpret the book as a cry for interaction with society. It is not yet known as to how Blue Wonders is going to market this book to children.
When asked to do an interview, Tom stayed in character and responded with a shy “no.” No one has seen Tom lately; presumably he is away in his dorm room (Manor third floor, go say hi) busy writing his children’s book, due out the end of June.
Posted by dwright at March 28, 2006 12:31 PM
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