Missy's 3 Simple Rules for the Library

[pen_grunt]

1. No cell phones in the library. Seriously, do you even comprehend how annoying it is (even if one is not trying to read or study) to have someone (namely YOU Ms. I'macutebubblyteen) giggling away on their cell phone at the library? Especially when you're in line at the information desk and someone is trying to HELP you. I have a great annoyance with cell phone users in general (which explains why I was only using about 18 minutes of cell phone time a month--and that was mainly when I was out of state), and libraries are sacred places. SHHHH!

2. No giggly teens in the library. The Central Library got smart and made an entire room FOR teens (called, appropriately "Teen Central") with all sorts of bean bag chairs, snacks and YA books. If you're going to be talking to your friend at the top of your voice about, "like, you know...whatever," then you need to go to your special room. Stay away from the reference section. Obnoxious behavior is not okay anywhere, but like, you know...the library is a quiet place and stuff. SHHH!

3. If you're going to use the library, you need to know that it is a li-brar-y. NOT a li-berry. I've seriously heard this from a dozen people in the last week. One was a giggly teen, talking to her friends at the top of her lungs ON HER CELL PHONE saying, "Oh my gaw, I'm at the liberry. That's right, at the LI-berry. I'm at the liberry." Another was a little girl who said to her mother, "We need to get a liberry card, but I think they're free." To which her mother responded, "Yes, liberry cards are free." Every time I hear "liberry" I want to slap someone. WTF is wrong with you people?

Maybe I just hate teenagers? Granted, I'm not that removed from my own teenage being, but I was NEVER a giggly loud-at-the-library (liberry) teen. Gaw, when did I become such a curmudgeon?

Comments

[llythefaerye.livejournal.com]

"Gaw, when did I become such a curmudgeon?" Approximately age 6, I'd guess. *raspberries*

Anytime I hear "liberry" I just think of Zaneeta Shin in Music Man. E-gads!

Awwww...

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

You're so cute when you're cranky!




(ducks & runs)

Re: Awwww...

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm generally in a good mood even when cranky (punchy...that's more like it). And I don't really slap people.

...unless they specifically request it.

*wicked grin*

Re: Awwww...

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

I don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about!







(my phone number is....)

Solution

[pointedthings.livejournal.com]

You should become head liberrian. That way, you could treat the library cards like invitations. Only given out to the deserving, with the minimal requirement of learning how to say "library". I mean, if they can't properly communicate where they are, are they really supposed to be there? Do they know where they even are? 'Cause there's no such thing as a liberry. Oh, and you could have a special cell phone security man. Catch 'em, and ban them from frappacinos and MTV. Get 'em where it hurts, I say.

Re: Solution

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I would also ban people from letting their young (under 4) children run around the non-children's part of the library unsupervised.

You know, I think that I would LOVE being a liberrian....errr....a librarian.

I like just BEING in the library, imagine working there. It'd be like visiting heaven every day....only I probably wouldn't get much work done.