I don't know about you but I was brought up that when in the library we speak in hushed voices. No yelling, shouting, etc. Nothing that would disturb other readers. I like to go use the computers when at the library here. There are signs that state 'Turn cell phones off or to silent. Do not take calls in the library. Please take and make calls outside.' Or something to that effect.
So, the other day I'm quietly working away when the young man beside me gets a call on his cell! answers it! and starts having a loud conversation! The woman in charge came over and told him he would have to take the call outside. He hung up, but once she left quickly called back, bitched about not being able to talk in there, and ended the call.
Today I walk in and a young woman has a child with her. A very loud, screaming, crying three year old and she sat there, at the computer as the child screamed. She was asked to quiet the child down so signed on to a second computer and put the child there to play. Hmmmmm.... the child continued to scream. She was asked to take the child and quiet him down. She got a bit nasty and then sarcastically said, well, lady you're going to need a broom here anyway. As I got up to leave I saw why! The poor cleaning person was trying to vacuum up pieces of cheese curls off the floor, clean it off the computer and the surrounding area. This is property of the library and she was treating it as if it was a play toy for her child.
We are becoming more and more of a spoiled, self centered, me only society and it's not a good place to be. Whatever happened to the golden rule? To treating others and others property with respect? Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! You're in the library!
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Yup. I know what you mean entirely. I still find it offensive when people talk loudly on their cell phones, or to each other, in restaurants, let alone libraries. When I have conversation at a table, it is as the level for only those people to hear, as is appropriate. Manners and consideration have gone the way of the 33 1/3 record album. It's like my poem says, people are no longer used to silence.
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