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My Four Worst Library Patrons, Part 2
8 years ago
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I wonder sometimes if its fun to be stupid. To go through life not knowing how much the world hates you, and not having to be held accountable for your actions. Then again, it is considerably less fun for anyone who has to deal with you. That particular duty falls on me much of the time. Here for your amusement are the second collection of my four worst library patrons.
4. I once had a patron who was extremely nice, very charming, and would have been very pleasurable to work with under the right set of circumstances. Small problem- he was drunk off his rear at 5 in the afternoon, and would NOT stop singing gospel music at the top of his lungs. My coworker and I not only had to tell him that wasn't appropriate, but on top of this, I have to deal with the fact some poor kid has whacked his head on a metal beam, and I have to stay behind until the ambulance arrives. Easily the second-worst shift I have ever had.
3. Maybe this is cheating a little, since it didn't happen to me. But at the moment, its the only one I can think of. There came a day when a certain woman wanted to attend storytime without a child. Now, that's not something we allow, because we don't want to run the risk that some unsavory character will try something nasty with the kids. Well, this woman didn't take that well at all. She started screaming her head off (in full view of the children in the middle of storytime, let me add) about how she had a God-given right to attend storytime since her tax dollars paid for this, and she turned on my hispanic co-worker with the words "She's not even a f**king citizen of this country, and she gets to attend!" All the children were crying, the mothers were scared out of their wits, and this moron would not stop screaming even as the cops were dragging her out of the library. And the kicker? None of this was even necessary. If she had really wanted to see story time so badly, she could have just stayed from a distance and watched.
2. Everyone has their archenemy. I now have mine- he's this white homeless guy who is an absolutely vile garbage sack of a human being. Bushy white beard, and with a face always flushed with alcohol, he will always fly into a violent temper whenever you call him out on his crap. If you catch him sleeping in the library, he will say "I wasn't sleeping. Please f**k off." If he misses his computer, he will take a swing at you. On no fewer than 4 separate occasions, he would come up to the desk to bully, belittle, or browbeat me or my coworkers, complete with swear words, whenever we caught him breaking a rule or showing up drunk. So, I bet you all are asking, why did we tolerate this guy? We didn't; he would always be just smart enough to slink out of the library whenever he had finished having his temper tantrum. But recently, he finally got his comeuppance. What happened was, he came up to the front desk drunk. My boss and my black co-worker told him he could not enter the library until he was sober. He reacted by calling my co-worker a nigger. Yeah. He went there. And after that, he said if he met my boss on the street, he would make things happen to her. This time, thankfully, the police showed up and banned him for harassment and intimidating behavior. He is now banned from the library for one year. But guess what? He snuck back in later that night, so he ended up getting arrested for trespassing. Sometimes I still see him in the street, so I have to be careful not to make eye contact. I sincerely hope he gets a concussion.
1. And the winner is....http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8183828/
Dishonorable Mentions
The guy who called me a racist cracker for the crime of telling him he could not use the catalog computer to browse youtube. After ignoring me four times.
The ungrateful idiot who accused me of trying to turn him gay when I accidentally brushed my hand against his. I was trying to help him upload his resume, and that was how he repayed me.
That non-parent who thought it was more important to play on the computer than comfort her crying toddler, and cussed out my boss when she was called out on it.
4. I once had a patron who was extremely nice, very charming, and would have been very pleasurable to work with under the right set of circumstances. Small problem- he was drunk off his rear at 5 in the afternoon, and would NOT stop singing gospel music at the top of his lungs. My coworker and I not only had to tell him that wasn't appropriate, but on top of this, I have to deal with the fact some poor kid has whacked his head on a metal beam, and I have to stay behind until the ambulance arrives. Easily the second-worst shift I have ever had.
3. Maybe this is cheating a little, since it didn't happen to me. But at the moment, its the only one I can think of. There came a day when a certain woman wanted to attend storytime without a child. Now, that's not something we allow, because we don't want to run the risk that some unsavory character will try something nasty with the kids. Well, this woman didn't take that well at all. She started screaming her head off (in full view of the children in the middle of storytime, let me add) about how she had a God-given right to attend storytime since her tax dollars paid for this, and she turned on my hispanic co-worker with the words "She's not even a f**king citizen of this country, and she gets to attend!" All the children were crying, the mothers were scared out of their wits, and this moron would not stop screaming even as the cops were dragging her out of the library. And the kicker? None of this was even necessary. If she had really wanted to see story time so badly, she could have just stayed from a distance and watched.
2. Everyone has their archenemy. I now have mine- he's this white homeless guy who is an absolutely vile garbage sack of a human being. Bushy white beard, and with a face always flushed with alcohol, he will always fly into a violent temper whenever you call him out on his crap. If you catch him sleeping in the library, he will say "I wasn't sleeping. Please f**k off." If he misses his computer, he will take a swing at you. On no fewer than 4 separate occasions, he would come up to the desk to bully, belittle, or browbeat me or my coworkers, complete with swear words, whenever we caught him breaking a rule or showing up drunk. So, I bet you all are asking, why did we tolerate this guy? We didn't; he would always be just smart enough to slink out of the library whenever he had finished having his temper tantrum. But recently, he finally got his comeuppance. What happened was, he came up to the front desk drunk. My boss and my black co-worker told him he could not enter the library until he was sober. He reacted by calling my co-worker a nigger. Yeah. He went there. And after that, he said if he met my boss on the street, he would make things happen to her. This time, thankfully, the police showed up and banned him for harassment and intimidating behavior. He is now banned from the library for one year. But guess what? He snuck back in later that night, so he ended up getting arrested for trespassing. Sometimes I still see him in the street, so I have to be careful not to make eye contact. I sincerely hope he gets a concussion.
1. And the winner is....http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8183828/
Dishonorable Mentions
The guy who called me a racist cracker for the crime of telling him he could not use the catalog computer to browse youtube. After ignoring me four times.
The ungrateful idiot who accused me of trying to turn him gay when I accidentally brushed my hand against his. I was trying to help him upload his resume, and that was how he repayed me.
That non-parent who thought it was more important to play on the computer than comfort her crying toddler, and cussed out my boss when she was called out on it.
TheHotrodHero
~thehotrodhero
Wow... Just wow.
