More fun at the library

Today we had a young man who kept saying that something was bullshit. I didn't know what he was talking about, as he was not talking to me. But I asked and what happened was he and some of his friends were crowded around a computer--that's against the rules here; one person to a computer unless you're working together on something and then you have to let us know about it. And they were being a little loud, which is also (surprise) frowned upon in a LIBRARY. What we at the desk can do is log them off of the computers--I think this is super cool. So one of the other ladies at the desk logged them off, which made them mad. So they logged back in on a different computer. After a few minutes, they were back to being a group and were sent a message from the desk saying to disperse. They didn't. They were logged off. We logged them off 3 times. They were told at least 4 times they couldn't do that--by 3 different people. They finally left voluntarily.

Yesterday, the security guard came over to let us know that someone at a computer was looking at porn. So I wrote down his card number and name. We checked his incident report history and this was his third porn offense in 4 months (he apparently skipped August or just wasn't caught). And what happens with your third porn offense? You get banned from the library for either 6 months or one year, I don't remember which. He was asked to leave the building and thankfully did so peacefully.

Today there were a couple of children who were playing hide and seek (not very well either) and their mother wasn't really doing much to stop them from running around and yelling. Control your children!

And here are my favorite questions from the past week, with my answers in brackets:
1) Where is your erotic section? [It's just mixed in with the general fiction.]
2) Can people buy books from the library? [No.] What about the Bible? [No.]
3) Do you have any newspapers? [Right over there.] No, newspapers for sale. [No.] Do you know where we can get some? [There's a gas station on the corner a couple blocks over.] (To friend) Well we're not walking that far.

I love this place!