Thursday, July 12, 2007

Entitlement, Part 1

(Not originally meant to be a series, but by the time I got home after this experience, I realized that this likely will be a series. Oh well.)

To the guy at the library who got a call on his cell phone and announced to his caller (rather loudly) as he was leaving the library that he "HAD" to leave the library to take his phone call--Get over yourself!!! If you don't like the library's rules and expectations for customers, then maybe you should go to an Internet Cafe and pay for your Internet access rather than complain about having to leave a building to take a call, particularly when that building is providing you a service for free. I highly doubt that you are so much in demand that you couldn't have turned your phone off for the one hour that you are allowed to be on the library computer. I have no doubt that this man went back inside after his call and tried to get the librarians to extend his computer time because he had to step outside for a minute. Computer access at the libraries is a privilege, not a divinely given right.

1 comment:

Meadow Walk said...

I am so happy HE ACTUALLY LEFT THE DARN PLACE.

I cannot even TELL YOU how many DAMN PEOPLE will let their phones ring, answer them, and have loud conversations at my library WHILE ON THE COMPUTER.

Dood. Hand the phone up. THERE ARE NO PHONES ALLOWED UP HERE.


grrr!