QUIET (rant)

[custosnox]

Whatever happened to the librarian who shushed anyone who was pretentious enough to make noise in a public library? 

Couldn't find quiet in my own home while studying for tomorrow's exam, so I decided to load up and seek some peace at the local library.  Apparantly "quiet please" doesn't mean what it used to.  A couple of isles over from where I was trying to study at was a woman who continued to chatter away on the phone (the phone loud enough that I could hear the woman she was talking to as well), at the table directly behind me was a woman who had to carry on a conversation with her toddler, not bothering to try and keep the kid at a hushed tone.  Combined with the clacking of people flipping through the cd collection and the constant scraping of chairs across the floor, the scene is anything but peace and quiet.  Oh, and to make it even more annoying, all the chatter was spanish.  Not sure why, but it seems that it is easier to block out chatter in your own language than in an unknown language.

[GG]

I guess next time you need to find a Christian Science Reading Room.   

[custosnox]

I guess next time you need to find a Christian Science Reading Room.   

I could always run to the school and find a quiet place there, but I shouldn't have to go that far since there is a pubic library right down the street.  Too bad people just don't respect others anymore.  But what can you do other than go find some place else?

[heironymouspasparagus]

Barnes and Noble.
Starbucks. 
Panera Bread. 
McDonald's - buy a coke and sit a while.
Border's Books and tapes.

I have sat at each of these from time to time with varying degrees of noise level.  Sometimes better, sometimes worse.

[HoneySuckle]

There are quiet rooms at Hardesty.  Did you check those out?  I tutor up there sometimes and try to find a room so that I don't disturb others.  I totally hear you though.  Many times when the rooms were full, I would tutor in a quiet corner and have to go and tell someone to keep their voice down.  I teach so I am not shy about telling others to zip it up, LOL

[custosnox]

There are quiet rooms at Hardesty.  Did you check those out?  I tutor up there sometimes and try to find a room so that I don't disturb others.  I totally hear you though.  Many times when the rooms were full, I would tutor in a quiet corner and have to go and tell someone to keep their voice down.  I teach so I am not shy about telling others to zip it up, LOL

It's not so much about finding a quiet place as it is about people not being quiet in a place that it's typically expected, the library.  By the time I left I was so livid I wasn't even going to bother finding someplace else.

[Ed W]

This is precisely why we need more armed people in libraries.

"Shhhh!"

"Shhhh"

BANG! 

"I TOLD you to be quiet!  Who's talkin' NOW, m-fer!  You got anything to say?  I didn't THINK so!"

Honestly, it's guaranteed to get you 5-8 minutes of nearly total silence, except for those sirens approaching outside.

(...and yes, I've had far too much coffee today.  Why did you ask?)

[custosnox]

This is precisely why we need more armed people in libraries.

"Shhhh!"

"Shhhh"

BANG! 

"I TOLD you to be quiet!  Who's talkin' NOW, m-fer!  You got anything to say?  I didn't THINK so!"

Honestly, it's guaranteed to get you 5-8 minutes of nearly total silence, except for those sirens approaching outside.

(...and yes, I've had far too much coffee today.  Why did you ask?)

hehe, actually, as I was leaving, I was thinking it was probably a really good thing that I left mine at home

[Ed W]

I was imagining Samuel L. Jackson as the head librarian:

[custosnox]

I was imagining Samuel L. Jackson as the head librarian:

ya know, I still need to watch that movie in full

[Hoss]

ya know, I still need to watch that movie in full

You're kidding me...you've never seen the whole movie?  Wow!

[custosnox]

You're kidding me...you've never seen the whole movie?  Wow!

Yeah, and I collect movies, go figure. 

[Mike 01Hawk]

Did you say anything to them?

[Conan71]

I was imagining Samuel L. Jackson as the head librarian:

"Say 'what' one more time! I dare you! I double dare you motherf*cker!"

[custosnox]

Did you say anything to them?

I considered it, but I was so irritated at the time, it would not have been nice.  So I choose the more polite option of leaving.  Besides, I would have had to stalk around the area like a madman, confronting several people, and the two primary ones where women who spoke spanish.