So you had him when you were 12?

[depechemodefan]

SW: sucky woman, a mom with two kids. I didn't realize she had 2 kids until much latter.
ss: sucky son. He's 9
s1 : supervisor 1
s2 : supervisor 2
kl : kids librarian
tl : teen librarian
km : kids librarian manager
aa: Chief's administrative assistent
me :

sw comes in with ss to the kids room, where I was stuck working for an hour.
sw: my son needs a library card.
me: you would have to get that on the first floor.
sw: I would like a computer use card then.
me : ok, what is your son's name?
sw: Herberto Assoyo. Or Perry.
me: *looking in the patron records* I see he has a computer use card. Here is the number. *I write it down*
sw and ss standing there still, not looking at me.
me: Can I help with anything else?
sw: no
me : your welcome
yeah, kind of shitty of me, because I'm tired of those people who think "I don't need to thank people doing their job.

sw and ss go to the registration terminal to log in, but they are on a waiting list. I see them leave. They come back about 10 min. latter.

sw: The adults on the computers here, can they be using the computers?
me: yes, since they are with their kids.
sw: I want to complain about the woman in the teen room.
me: yes, there can only be teens in there.
sw: I was with my 16 year old son (not ss, he looks about 10) and the woman said that I couldnt' be in there. I told her I was with my 16 year old son and she said there can't be 30 year old women in the teen room. I was so insulted. I want to talk to someone about this. I was just trying to do research while I'm waiting for a computer in here.
me: alright, let me find someone.
So I spend time trying to find another Kids or Teen librarian. I finally find kl and tl, but they say that the librarian in the teen room is a manager, so they aren't above her. So I go looking for an adult librarian, but no one is above her. I ask s1 and s2, and they say, "well, I'm not above her, sorry." I tell them I have no one else to ask but Chief, but I didn't see her in the office. S1 and s2 look at me apologetically. So I look for the Chief of the library again, but I"m told she's out to lunch. I did find aa, who said she would talk to sw.

I went to km in the Teen room and when she saw me she figured out that sw complained aobut her. km said, "I told her that there can be only teens in here. She said she was with her 16 year old son. Now the boy with her was not 16. I told her that there couldn't be 30 year olds in here. She said, "what?" and I said apologetically, "I mean, 20 year olds in here," but she left mad. Also she wanted a card for her son.
I said, "oh, I gave her her son's card number.
km: oh, can you check how old he was? He wasn't 16.

So I go and look up the info, and I see aa. I found out from aa that sw had ss and another son, who was 16.

I go to km.
me: here, ss is 9 years old. But aa told me she had a second kid with her, in the Teen room.

So, the recap, the woman has a 16 year old son but is insulted that she is told she is 30 Of course, she wanted to stay, flounting the rules, so she picked something really weak to bitch about. So far as I know, she wasnt' placated by being alowed back into the teen room. Only 4 of the 18 computers were in use there so it's obvious to see what she really was being a bitch about.
Also, I hate my co-coworkers; no one wanted to talk to this woman, because they don't want to be bothered with the situtation. Bunch of cowards. Really, all that is needed is someone just to listen to the bitch, and then tell km's manager (since km's manager is off today).

[Merriweather]

I agree, she just wanted to use the teen room computers so she wouldn't have to wait for the proper one for her use. Talk about really having to be creative to find something to bitch about, though, gee.

As for age, though, you never know. My Dad married young, had a son, then was divorced. Several years later, he married my Mom. My mom was quite young when she married him, and quite a bit younger than him (about 12 years difference). When his son would spend time with them, my mom thought it was hilarious to introduce her 8 year old son, and somehow slip into the conversation that she was 20. She never called him her step son, and never explained - she though it was hilarious to see their faces as they did a bit of math....

[EricKei]

Merri - it occurs to me that, if she consistently called him "her" son, she probably thought of him that way too...which is pretty darn cool of her ^_^

[Merriweather]

Merri - it occurs to me that, if she consistently called him "her" son, she probably thought of him that way too...which is pretty darn cool of her ^_^

Oh, she did. He never spent lots of time with us, but he was always my brother, even if we didn't see each other often. Can't say we were close, as he was 13 years older than me, but definitely family. But knowing my mother, I'd say she did it for effect even before she got to know him enough to consider him that

[Teskeria]

Sadly in my old neighborhood in Boston, there were 12 & 13 year old 'mothers'. granted their parents were doing the actual 'parenting', but the kids carried those babies.

[depechemodefan]

I talked to km today, and seems the sw changed her story. When I finally got the aa to talk to her, sw told aa that km "called me old." No mention of km saying "we can't have 30 year olds in the teen room."

Next thing you know sw will complian that km "told me I can't be with my grandchildren in the teen room."