Beyond Seefiling, my day was spent running back and forth to the
computer hall every 20 minutes or so to roust yet another member of the
Internet Crowd from their joy of joys so another patron could get on. The computers stayed packed the whole day long.
I was also shocked that both Mr. Big Stupid AND Parka
turned up before 3 p.m. today, instead of at the crack of closing time.
Mr. Big Stupid managed a "Gotney`puters,buddy?" before I could tell
him he had a sixteen minute wait. Parka (who, by the way, no longer
wears his trademark enormous white parka, being as how it's Summer and
all, and has now switched to a ratty, sweat-stained, white v-neck
t-shirt, the kind that's made of some sort of synthetic fabric that's
really too thin and semi-translucent to be worn as anything but an
undershirt but he does it anyway just because he's such a big sweaty
mongoloid, instead) had to actually wait in line for several minutes
before he could utter his "MAY I PLEASE SIGN UP TO USE A COMPUTER"
catchphrase. We had to roust him off after half an hour, but he just
kept coming back to plague us more throughout the day. Just when we
thought we'd seen the last of him he'd turn back up to chat with his
e-skanks and pound the space bar with far more force than necessary.
His final appearance was 20 minutes before closing time, which meant he
wanted to stay on AFTER closing time. I had to go back and stand there
tapping my foot.
"I'm getting off right now," he said, still typing away for another minute.
I've decided that the thing that infuriates me about
him the most, even beyond his computer hogging and his whole catchphrase
thing, is that he has no concept of what our hours are. Every day.
EVERY... SINGLE... DAMNED... DAY... this superfluous butthole in
humanity's crack asks, "What are your hours tomorrow?" Now that might
not seem like the sort of thing that should offend, particularly when
our library does have some degree of variance in hours on weekends and
Mondays. But after you've answered the question twelve thousand times
and each time the answer is "NINE TO SEVEN" and it still ain't sunk into
his pointy little porn-addled skull, you might tend to get a little
pissy about it too.
I'm thinking of having a T-shirt made up with our
hours emblazoned on it in huge red letters. Or just start answering him
with our full week's schedule of hours every time he asks, using a loud
Don Pardo voice. Yup. That might be good for a few jollies.
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