My 6 year old who has autism sprung an idea on me after I picked him up from school today “Dad let’s use the 3D printer at the library!” Oh.. um ok we can try to figure that out bud. My wife who is out of town says they haven’t done it before but you sign up online. I made the appointment online for an hour not realizing it would take me an hour to figure out how to use a 3D printer. The nicest lady next to me using the other 3D printer could tell I was struggling and kindly guided me through the process (I’m terrible at following instructions on paper). I finally got to the point where our little cat was 3D printing and a few minutes later the librarian came in saying “Ummm yeah it’s not supposed to be printing like that we need to stop it, and your time is almost up”. Ok no problem I should’ve prepared better, not the end of the world. I could tell my son was really disappointed but he was surprisingly understanding that it didn’t work out. We went to read some books and color, and then left. As we were leaving, the other nice lady with Laurie came out to the parking lot and said “Hey you guys can have this cat Laurie printed out earlier” and it was this really cool purple/blue cat. It made my sons day. He’s still playing with it. He’s so excited to bring it to school tomorrow to show his friend who he was talking about 3D printing with. The boys said thank you to Lauries friend who gave them the cat but I didn’t get a chance to go back into the library to thank her because the boys were clamoring to get in the car.
It’s the small gestures of kindness that can completely turn people’s day around. In the current state of the world, be a Laurie.
edit: Also thank you to the patient Librarian who offered to clean up the little mess I made out of the 3D printer situation. I am going to watch a few 3D printer YouTube videos to prepare for the next visit.
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