Romance novels and the old man

During the day at the nursery, many people call to ask if we take donations. An older guy phoned in and asked if we "take books?". And I said, assuming that they were childrens books said, "yes we do take books". A little while later the guy who had phoned in rang the door bell. He was about seventy, and he was shaking trying to hold up the massive tubaware container. He was really exicted that he got to donate these books and that they were not going to go to waste. Then he asked me if he could keep the tubaware container. I of course said yes, meanwhile thinking about the future work this is going to cause for me. As he took off the tubaware container's lid I saw that it full of harlequin romance novels. The nursery really doesn't need harlequin romance novels, but thinking, "ok, it's only one tubaware container, I can just put the books in the garage for the food bank". After he finished dumping the books, and by books, I mean about 100 of them. He said, "I have more in the car!". and I said, "oh, wow" with a double meaning. So he came back from the car dumping the books on the floor, while i tried to make some organized pile of it, and also trying to keep my eye on the two little tikes who like to get into trouble. As I am still in the hallway he comes back with yet another tubaware container which was of course filled with these romance novels. As he finished he said "that he was super happy that he found some place to drop off the books", and I didn't have the heart to tell him that we don't use these types of books, so I thanked him. I thought it was funny that a 70 year old would have all these romance novels; but he probably didn't even know what they were and I don't think he realized that the crisis nursery was a place for children. And because I was by myself that day, I didn't have time to get the books out of the hallway and into the garage, so everybody who dropped off childrens stuff got to see the massive pile of harlequin novels.