Missy's 3 Simple Rules for the Library
Jun. 27th, 2006 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pen_grunt1. 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?
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?
