Brief Intro
Alright I get it, Bellyup Sports, and library discussion definitely do not mix, but today I’ve got a lot of ranting to do. After a busy week, of finally having some school work to do, I’m ready to not step into a library for a couple of weeks. A few papers, a couple homework assignments and a quick project that I saved until the last night kept me busy in the library. I think everyone can relate to this, and can especially relate to what I went through this week.
People!
So, for most of the week, I got my work done on the second floor of the library. The way it works here, as I’m sure it does at many other schools is, first-floor normal talking level, the second floor can talk, but limited and quieter. Then the third you can hear a pin drop. I’m definitely not a quiet guy, but I know how to act civilized, so I get my stuff done on the second floor. Unfortunately for me, many new freshmen I suppose, decide that they want to do their work there too. And these kids have absolutely no idea how to act in a library. I’ve got one girl over here talking on the phone another guy yelling across the “circle tables” to his buddy down the hall. I’ll tell ya these kids just don’t get it. So you shoot them the death stare and they pipe down for a minute but then continue their antics. A key, however, is just to plop in some headphones. (Dan Tip #1)
Breaking Point
Finally, today I just had to finish up a few sentences and print out my paper, so I figured the first floor would suffice. Now, remember regular talking level, but like inside voices. So I find a table, I’m getting my stuff done when out of nowhere the girls at the table behind me start their rant about how Starbucks charged them extra for their skim milk. Now, this girl was very angry about it because when I turned around I came to realize that this girl is talking with people the table over from her. This girl started talking like a normal person but as she eventually became more disgruntled, began to start really getting into it. She’s yelling, like full out yelling. “They charged me extra, and then when I questioned it they gave me a dirty look!” “Terrible customer service, I’m going to write to corporate.”
Meanwhile, I’m trying to mind my own business, but she continues on. She then opens up a new story in her same yelling voice. She works at Chili’s, so she’s pretty experienced in the customer service industry. It was disturbing that they’d make a facial gesture at her, she would’ve been fired for that. I feel like I learned about this girls whole damn life, not because I was eavesdropping, but because I had no choice but to hear it. I should have taken my own advice and brought my headphones today. She topped it off by offering her new found friends jobs.
I was so bent out of shape about how loud she was talking, that I up and left the library and headed to class. I made it halfway across campus by the time I realized I forgot to print out my paper, and it was one of the only things I had to do. I hustled back, she was still talking, and then barely made it to class on time (article for another day). Lesson learned, bring headphones and stick to the second floor.
Rant over, thanks for reading. Go Pats!
