This is a new weekly posting every Monday for no better reason than sometimes I like to vent,lol. My dear friend Autumnforest told me I needed to get more personal on my blogs. I don't think she meant to go this far but .... what the hell.
(Gregg approaches the soap box.)
This weeks gripe. Quiet In The Library
You know when I was a kid, ... not that many years ago, we were always taught to be quiet when entering a library. It was just respectful of those who were reading or studying. I don't know about you but I need a bit of quiet to focus on things, especially when I am writing. Seemed like a great policy to me. Well, until I went to a library to work the other day.....
I sat down and got all my stuff arranged, opened up my laptop and as I touched the keyboard, I hard the most god awful noises start up. Laughing, loud talking, kids screaming and noises from the front desk I could not even recognise. As I sat there attempting to work, I realized it would have been more quiet to write on the subway. And to my surprise the most noisy individuals in this library.....wait for it....were the staff themselves. I had to listen to a bunch of old ladies talk about their less than interesting lives and gripe that one of them had to check out a patron. Isn't that what they are supposed to be there for? They whined, they complained, they gossiped and bitched .... and not quietly either.
I don't know about you, but I miss the old version of the library. And since my Mom raised me with better manners, I will not give out the location I went to, but I will say I have had this problem in more than one library lately.
Next week ... Shrinking products and growing prices!