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  • Attention: Please keep this door shut

    Rain, rain, go away
    ...Come again on a day I'm not working. I knew it'd be a bad day when I got up late, got ready, put on library-appropriate shorts, and then opened the shades. It's raining. Or, to be more accurate, pissing rain. I changed into corduroys and ventured out to realise that my poncho had somehow gotten ripped. Sigh. Then it kept blowing up so my knees got all wet, and I kept accidentally hitting puddles and splashing the back of my thighs.

    So I wasn't in too good of a mood when I finally got to the library and locked my bike up, ready to put books away.


    Attention: Please keep this door shut.

    That's what it says on the bathroom door at my library. The same sign is posted on both sides of the door.

    I'm sure you'll never guess what happened to this door... That's right, Entitlement Man decided to go to the bathroom, walked over to the door, pulled the handle (by which, two inches away, hung the sign), went in and left the door hanging in the breeze. When I hauled myself up from shelving on the bottom shelf and shut the door for him, I noticed that he had left the inner men's room door open as well. Exhibitionism?

    I had too much hope for humanity, however. Despite the door somehow magically closing during his time in the bathroom, he left the door open again on the way out. I gave him a look of "I'm so sorry for you, oh illiterate library patron" and went and firmly shut the door.


    Yeah, it was minor, but I was already in a bad mood due to the rain. this also happens nearly every time I'm there, with different people. Usually they get the clue after I shut it for them the first time, though. READ THE SIGN!!!!!!!!!
    "When life gives you lemons, you give life a f---ing paper cut and then squeeze f---ing lemon juice on it, because life should give you something better than f---ing lemons."

  • #2
    You would think that being in a Library, full of books, that people in some way could read. Alas, I'm proven wrong yet again. At least I now know that there is no place that the non-reading won't go.
    "Oh, by the way..." All of my HATE

    Ou kata nomon = Not according to the accepted norm

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    • #3
      Quoth Finduilas View Post
      I noticed that he had left the inner men's room door open as well.
      Well, at least you didn't have to witness anything traumatizing ...
      This area is left blank for a reason.

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      • #4
        Quoth Trayol View Post
        You would think that being in a Library, full of books, that people in some way could read. Alas, I'm proven wrong yet again. At least I now know that there is no place that the non-reading won't go.
        People always think that about bookstores, too... <sigh>
        I don't go in for ancient wisdom
        I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
        It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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        • #5
          I always take a P in front of witnesses.

          But I was born in a barn, can't read English and am well endowed.


          One of those statements is most likely not true.
          SC Motto "I am more important than you and others and don't you ever forget it"

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          • #6
            Quoth StevieJD View Post
            But I was born in a barn, can't read English and am well endowed.


            One of those statements is most likely not true.
            You were born in a barn and can't read English?

            ...Waaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiit a second. How are you on this forum if you can't read English!? *stare*
            Ba'al: I'm a god. Gods are all-knowing.

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            • #7
              Does being a librarian give you death glare powers? Even though I've never encountered a mean librarian, their stereotype is sorta snooty, isn't it? Do you get to hush whoever you want? I would love that.

              I hate it when people pee with the door open... Never had it happen at work, though.

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              • #8
                I'm an oxymoron. I am actually not a librarian, but I will be; my favorite music is heavy metal and I have a naturally loud talking voice...
                I've noticed that the trend these days is towards a louder library, in an attempt to improve patronage.
                "When life gives you lemons, you give life a f---ing paper cut and then squeeze f---ing lemon juice on it, because life should give you something better than f---ing lemons."

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                • #9
                  You're well endowed and can read English???

                  Have I mentioned that I'm recently single?
                  ...how do used tampons attract thieves? ---Sleepwalker

                  Chickens are Asexual!

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Trayol View Post
                    You would think that being in a Library, full of books, that people in some way could read.
                    Probably wandering the children's section looking at the pretty picture books... maybe trying to find a 5 year-old to read to them :P
                    ONI HEUIR NI FEDIR

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Trayol View Post
                      You would think that being in a Library, full of books, that people in some way could read
                      As a book store employee I can safely say "You thought WHAT???" Ha ha ha.
                      Proud to be a Walmart virgin.

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                      • #12
                        sayeth trayol:
                        You would think that being in a Library, full of books, that people in some way could read
                        sadly, there is no safe place for us to go; they're EVERYWHERE we are...
                        look! it's ghengis khan!
                        Sorry, but while I can do many things, extracting heads from anuses isn't one of them. (so sayeth the irv)

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                        • #13
                          Quoth chainedbarista View Post
                          sadly, there is no safe place for us to go; they're EVERYWHERE we are...
                          SCs. Everywhere you want to be.
                          And making life miserable.
                          Ba'al: I'm a god. Gods are all-knowing.

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                          • #14
                            Customers don't read anything, ever.
                            It doesn't matter how often or clearly it was posted.
                            I worked at a CVS a long time ago, and the pharmacy closed at 6 on Sundays, but the store part closed at 10. Those were the worst 4 hours to work.

                            SC: I need my medicine! Why is there no one in the pharmacy!?
                            Me: It closed at 6. It has done so on Sundays since last year. It's on the door, on the pharmacy, and in the ad.
                            SC: But I'm going on vacation tomorrow and I need my pills now!

                            That exact thing happened a number of times, actually.
                            Excuse me, good sir paladin, can you direct me to your EVIL district?

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Apathy View Post
                              SC: But I'm going on vacation tomorrow and I need my pills now!
                              Lack of planning on the SC's part, does not constitute an emergency on yours.

                              ^-.-^
                              Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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