THE DAY THE EASTER BUNNY CAME TO OUR LIBRARY

     They want me to tell you that the Easter bunny came to visit the library on Tuesday.
     When I came to work this morning, several staff members were talking about a cute little bunny that caused quite a commotion here yesterday.  Elois said, "You need to write about the Easter bunny coming to visit our library."  So I grabbed my pen and paper, and here's the story.
     Carolyn was leaving for lunch and as she headed toward her car in the staff parking at the back of the library, that's when she saw it.  This little white and grey bunny (mostly all white, she said).  He was running in and out from under Nancy's car.  With great concern that it might run out in the road and get hit, Carolyn headed back inside the library to our director's office and said to Holly, "You're an animal lover.  Come see if you can catch this little bunny."
     Everyone sort of got involved in one way or another.  Holly and Nancy and Aileen ran outside to check things out.  Monique and Cray were backups to help.  And Carolyn was there to make sure everything worked out right for the bunny.
     After they chased the bunny back and forth under the car trying to catch it, Nancy went to retrieve a net they use as a prop in the Children's Library.  With some effort, Holly was able to trap the bunny in the net and put it in a box someone had brought out.
     Apparently, the bunny was a pet of Nancy's eleven-year-old brother and had escaped its cage at home, only to hitch a ride somewhere under Nancy's car, all the way from her home in the Sunset area of Moultrie to the library, which is close to downtown.  Holly figured the bunny must have ridden near the engine and tire for the long ride, but she said it didn't seem traumatized, not stressed in the least.  In fact, she said the bunny was friendly and really "cool."
     I talked with the "rabbit rasslers" or "bunny wranglers," as they have been called, to see what they had to say about the whole event.
     Monique said it was an interesting time and fun.  She had helped chase the bunny from one end of the car to the other.  Holly said she had been sprawled on the ground, trying to get the bunny out from under the car, when a big SUV pulled into the parking space near where she was sprawled.  That would have made things even more interesting.
     But I think Aileen gave the best comments.  "It was definitely fun, totally different from what we expect and do all the time, and everyone was very concerned about the bunny.  It just shows the wonderful humanitarian side of everyone involved."
     Well, that's the story.  And because it happened right before Easter Sunday, we just have to believe (or really want to) that the Easter bunny came to visit us here at the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library.
     Pretty cool, huh?