Yup, even children’s librarians have wardrobe malfunctions.  But not quite like Janet Jackson’s…

In the middle of today’s Mother Goose on the Loose Storytime for the very youngest kids, I was singing my heart out while we all rang our jingle bells:  “We ring our bells together, we ring our bells together, we ring our bells together because it’s fun to do.  Ring them up HIGH!!!”  >kablam<  …bracelet explosion…

The glass bead bracelet that I was wearing literally exploded while my right arm was high in the air, waving the bell around.  Meaning that glass beads and the metal spacer beads went FLYING around the story room.  Nice choking hazard for the little ones, eh?

I think I turned BRIGHT red as I scrambled around the room to collect the rolling beads, dumping them in the storytime drum while trying to explain to the parents that my bracelet had just broken.

No harm, no foul – no one choked, no one stepped on a bead and took a header – but this definitely proved that old adage: “Expect the unexpected.”