A 2-year-old mind in a body of a 20 year old.

[depechemodefan]

I had to work on the second floor the last hour of the day (7-8). Usually 2nd floor is a cushy job since we don't have internet computers (just computers you use to do job searching), so mostly it's people studying.

Of course, putting back the books is a pain. I was cursing out (well, in my head) patrons for putting books in the wrong place.

So around 7:30 I see a woman in black dress and sandals while I'm waiting for the elevator. Important latter on, the sandals are not flip-flops. I hope she doesn't get on. She doesn't but when I come back I see her waving at me, pointing at a patron. I go up to the patron and he wants books and fish farming. I get him to the catalog and tell him, "type in 'fish farming'" and he says, "It's called aquaculture" in a condescending voice.

but he found his books. of course he doesn't thank me.

So this part of the tale:
me:
bd : woman in the black dress
wh : wet hothead
s : security

I'm putting up more books, and it's around 7:45. I see a woman, about 20 yrs old, with pants that look wet, from above knees to cuffs. She has no shoes on. I go up to her.

me: Hi, sorry, you have to wear shoes in the library.
wh: Really? (she was surprised)
me: yes, it's stated on the rules when you walk in.
wh: *points at bd, who is at a table reading* she isn't wearing shoes, she is wearing sandals.
me: (aw fuck, I think, this is going to devolve into her arguing with me and cursing me out and then I have to get security, fuck if security will sho up) Sandals are shoes.
wh: my feet are wet. I don't want to get athlete's foot.
me: *calling security*
wh: *starts getting mad*, "you didn't even let me get my shoes on...
me : *while talking to security* I have a patron who won't put on her shoes...
wh: bitch! blah blah blah....
me: and she just called me a bitch. *hangs up*
wh : blah blah blah
me: you know it's stupid to walk around without shoes.
wh: you called be stupid? bang! you're fired!
me: will you stop acting like a 2 year old.
wh : I know you are but what am I? Why don't you sit in the corner for a time out.
security shows up.
wh : blah blah blah...I called her a b-i-
me: why don't you tell security you called me a bitch?
s: you have to leave for the day.
wh :blah blah...I'll just go up to the 3rd floor.
s : no, you have to leave for the day, you can come back tomorrow.


I was so ammused by this. Really, the smart person will just agree to what I said and just go back to what they were doing when my back was turned. But argue with me gets security and cursing me out gets you banned.

Problem, though, was she left about 5 min to closing. I had to go outside to catch my bus. I hoped she wasn't waiting for me outside to ambush me. Luckily she wasn't around. and I almost missed my bus.

[Silvercat]

I hate shoes and I don't see any reason why you'd need them in a library BUT if that's the policy and you're told by an employee, then put your damn shoes on!

[thehuckster]

According to Wikipedia, fish farming is a subcategory of aquaculture, so if bd wanted to be a condescending ass, she failed.

Kind of the same way sandals are a subcategory of shoes.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

I hate shoes and I don't see any reason why you'd need them in a library BUT if that's the policy and you're told by an employee, then put your damn shoes on!

Health concern. At home you know how often the floors/carpets are cleaned, and only you and your family (or friends) are walking around barefoot.

We have no idea how often Library floors/carpets are cleaned, or if the people who have been walking around (with or without) shoes have any kind of crap on their feet. (Germs from treading on dog shit? Walking on used gum? Or if they are barefoot they might have a fungus or germs down there. Or just what might be on the floor in a public building in general.)

Yeah I walk around outside all the time barefoot, even going out into our back woods with our dogs without shoes on, so I probably wouldn't be concerned for my health walking around barefoot on a library floor, but the library has to be more aware of these kinds of things.

[depechemodefan]

so if bd wanted to be a condescending ass, she failed.

Sorry I put too much in the story, but bd was pointing to a patron for me to help, she didn't ask for help. The only reason I included her into the story was bd was just sitting at a table and wh pointed out that bd didn't have shoes on, she had sandals.

I'm also thinking about the staples on the floor. or maybe even needles; can't see stuff like that, and who spends their time looking down on the ground?

[Merriweather]

I hate shoes and I don't see any reason why you'd need them in a library BUT if that's the policy and you're told by an employee, then put your damn shoes on!

Mainly same as stores, etc - you never know who might have spilt, broken or otherwise gotten something on the floorthat the library could be sued for if you step in it.

[BlaqueKatt]

We have no idea how often Library floors/carpets are cleaned, or if the people who have been walking around (with or without) shoes have any kind of crap on their feet.

you do not want to know what's growing on my shoes(I actually know, I've swabbed them, and cultured it out), which is why my lab shoes stay in the lab.

FYI-Clostridium perfringens, cousin to clostridium botulism, commonly found in soil, causes gas gangrene. I walk through my garden, pick up the spores, walk into the library, maybe step on a staple...

If I'm wearing shoes the staple won't perforate my foot, if you aren't those spores that I left on the staple(along with he ones on your own skin), are now in your foot.

I love germs, I feed them, incubate them, nurture them into happy little colonies, than send them to an explodie death(heat lysis).

[MoonCat]

In every city I've ever been in, there have been areas where tiny little bits of glass are all over the sidewalk, usually due to some idiot smashing a bottle...make that multiple idiots, over time, smashing bottles. The soles of shoes can pick those up and deposit them somewhere else.

Now imagine walking on that in your bare feet...

Some people may have relatively tough soles from walking around barefoot all the time, but many don't. Anyway that's a rule that's pretty easy for library patrons to follow, so why make a fuss over it? Some people just can't stand being told what to do.

[Argabarga]

Just about every public building I've ever been in/near has a rule about having to wear shoes/shirts, for just the reasons stated above. They don't need anyone tracking IN some kind of infection or being able to pick up one someone else did track in.

Goes double for food service places

[earl colby pottinger]

Question

I love germs, I feed them, incubate them, nurture them into happy little colonies, than send them to an explodie death(heat lysis).

You would not happen to be a short blonde who co-stars in a show called Big Bang Theory would you?

PS. Did you wash your hands before dinner today? Ebola virus is such a downer.

[Food Lady]

I don't even go barefoot at home. I'm not going to wear slippers in summer, but I have on flipflops that don't go outside (to keep the soles clean).

[Analytical Gaijin]

Goes double for food service places

There is a fast food chain in Hawaii, Zippy's, that has a sign on the door that says "No shirt, No Shoes, No Problem!" Once I distinctly recall a couple, the guy in board shorts and the lady in a bikini, wander in and order at the counter. I always think of this when I am in mainland and see the "No Shirt, No Shoes" signs.

-AG

[XCashier]

me: you know it's stupid to walk around without shoes.
wh: you called be stupid? bang! you're fired!
me: will you stop acting like a 2 year old.
wh : I know you are but what am I? Why don't you sit in the corner for a time out.

Seriously?! Talk like Pee-Wee Herman and expect to be treated like an adult?!

There is a fast food chain in Hawaii, Zippy's, that has a sign on the door that says "No shirt, No Shoes, No Problem!"

The now-defunct Ed Debevic's had a sign saying "No shirt, no shoes, no pants, no service!"

[depechemodefan]

Seriously?! Talk like Pee-Wee Herman and expect to be treated like an adult?!

I was going to name my thread, "Pee-Wee Herman waz here" but I think most people will thnk about some other bad behavior of his after reading that title.

So far I havn't seen the twit. So maybe she found somewhere else she can be herself.

[thehuckster]

Seriously?! Talk like Pee-Wee Herman and expect to be treated like an adult?!

Rereading that conversation with that voice gave me renewed entertainment! Especially reading "blah blah blah" literally. I salute you!

I was going to name my thread, "Pee-Wee Herman waz here" but I think most people will thnk about some other bad behavior of his after reading that title.

Well, the person was lacking things she should have been wearing, so it's close enough, right?