I know this is the second posting for today, but trust me it is needed.
As most of you know, I don't have home internet (blame it on the Comcast monopoly) and so I am using the internet at the library. The Wyoming library is a very nice library with their own coffee shop and a mass amount of computers that patrons, like myself, can use free of charge.
However, I think they should set some standards. I go to the library daily, come on, what else do I have going on? I have encountered some interesting people. I will describe them for you now
The smelly guy-this guy smells like B.O. and vomit wrapped into one great combo and out of all the gin joints in the world, he had to walk into mine. We're talking right next to me. I was breathing into may hand! Now, this is kind of hard to do while you are trying not to vomit on your computer and try to appear like nothing is wrong.
The loud teens-this is a little easier to deal with. I mean it is a library, but they are young right? So they are arguing about the names of the villains in video games and punching each other on the shoulder. This is much better than smelly guy
MySpace Mom-Yes, you read this correctly. My space mom and her truant daughter were at the library, ready for a good day of skipping school. They had pulled up their favorite website, myspace, and proceeded to talk to boys and say some things I was a little surprised for a mom to say. It especially surprised me that the daughter was keeping the mom in line.
Talkie McGee-I have encountered many of this variety of species. You know the type, the read the computer screen out loud, talk to the person sitting next to them, not using their "inside voice" and they are the most annoying of the species. They make it almost impossible for me to concentrate and instead they force me to complain about them in print.
Sighing Crazy Lady-She is a special breed in and of herself. She has combined the Talkie McGee and the sigh and I didn't think it was possible, but she is the most annoying person I have ever encountered. Let me take you on a journey...Imagine it with me now...close your eyes...you are sitting there trying to communicate with friends over email and look for jobs when you hear a loud sigh. What is that? You think to yourself and go on about your work. When low and behold you hear it again. Only this time it sounds like this "Sigh, Sigh, Sigh, Sigh SIGH, SIGH, SIGH, SIGH, SIGH!!! Is this person having a baby next to me? Does she have breathing problems? What is happening? Can one person really sigh that much and be o.k?
So, please, I beg you do not become these people. Do not sit in public and say "Oh, that is so cute" while looking at the computer screen. Don't annoy the person next to you. Unless you want to end up on their blog.
2 comments:
yes I have seen these special people...good observations i must say. hmmm, have you ever noticed that even though there are 5 million computers at that library that they are ALWAYS full? This had spawned another special breed of person that i have noticed, we shall call him the lurker for lack of a more creative name...he is the one that watches over your shoulder until you are done, or that sits right by the computers staring and waiting for someone to be done and then when that person gets up to leave, said person leaps up to pounce on their computer. This leads inevitably to a fight when another lurker does the same thing...ah yes good times are to be had at the library...
thats funny stuff! Some people have no respect for anyone or they just have no clue. Take Your Pick. They must think they are in their own little world and no one else notices them.
But hey what do you think they call you on their blog...the quiet girl....or the coffee slurper?....ya never know....;-)
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