"Did you have sex with her?"

[depechemodefan]

We have this courtesy phone that our regulars abuse. The librarians, security, and even the police that is now station at our library get sick of these idiots who keep on using the phone to shoot the breeze with their friends, make calls to social services, etc. The phone was meant morel like an emergency phone, for ex., calling for a ride or calling work to say you are running late.

We do have on the phone "3 min. time limit." Which people ignore.

Anyway, another regular is on the phone for a long time but I'm not paying atteniton and no one is waiting. I hear him say, "so you are living with her? Are you having sex with her?"

Maybe I'm being a prude. Maybe I'm getting sick of these people. But I turned to him and told him, "Your 3 minutes are up." He told the person on the phone, "I have to get off the phone, I'm at the library. Maybe I shouldn't mentioned sex."

Things are so sucky here, it's more suck then brain burp.

[otakuneko]

They see the phone and think, "Sweet! I don't have to burn cell phone minutes!"

...I wouldn't do that, and my cell is a whopping fifteen cents per minute. (On the flip side of that, everything else, email, web, text, etc are unlimited and free with the $1/day access fee)

[smileyeagle1021]

sorry, I have to do it, the thread title just makes it too easy

"ah, did not have sexual relations... wit that woman"

though seriously am I the only one bothered by the fact that someone thought that was a good conversation to be having at the library at all, much less the courtesy phone?

[digilight]

"ah, did not have sexual relations... wit that woman"

Fixed for my amusment

****damnit how do you remove errr....stains from errr..dress material.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Fixed for my amusment

****damnit how do you remove errr....stains from errr..dress material.

That's easy. Take it to the cleaners. Laundering is their specialty, you know

[lightmylamb]

Can you put a sign on the phone that says that calls will be disconnected after 3 minutes. You can time people, and at about 2 mins and 50 seconds, start walking over looking like you're about to unplug the phone.

It might work.

[Legal Eagle]

That's easy. Take it to the cleaners. Laundering is their specialty, you know

Oxygenated water works great on those stains as well as blood.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Oxygenated water works great on those stains as well as blood.

Why do you think I keep a large tub of OxyClean in my laundry room?

[Broomjockey]

Why do you think I keep a large tub of OxyClean in my laundry room?

Because you murder people on a regular basis, which is why you have only rare stories of SCs? You don't want them linked back to you, after all.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Because you murder people on a regular basis, which is why you have only rare stories of SCs? You don't want them linked back to you, after all.

And here my excuse was going to be that since I'm working during the day and as a general rule we're not that busy, we don't get that many noteworthy SC's.

Unless you count the clueless woman who was holding up the register while I was at lunch waiting to pay for my drink, but I'll save that for a post of its own.

[Broomjockey]

And here my excuse

So you admit that it's just an excuse, and not the real reason! I was RIGHT!

[depechemodefan]

Can you put a sign on the phone that says that calls will be disconnected after 3 minutes. You can time people, and at about 2 mins and 50 seconds, start walking over looking like you're about to unplug the phone.

It might work.

I wish. Unfortunately these losers will complain to the management the librarians are rude to them ("but no one else is waiting!" and "I was routed by company and was left on hold!" and "your librarians are rude! They told me to get off the phone!") and the management will tell us there is no reason to make people to get off the phone.

Management = no spine.

All these morons will say that their call is an emergency. Same as them saying that what they are doing is research, when we tell them to get off the research only computers when we see them watching YouTube. And the pussy management will say, "well, you have to document people not being able to use the equipment as it was intended."

If it was up to me, I would ask people "what do you need the phone for." And if I hear it's not an emergency, I will tell them to get off the phone. But I have enough negative comments from the assholes, so I have to pick my battles. *sigh*

This is the same management that didn't kick out a guy who A) was watching porn and B) called me a bitch when I told him he can't watch porn.

[otakuneko]

Hey now, for my current project, watching youtube really WAS part of my research.

Now I'll never get pi-ta-go-ra su-i-chi! outta my head.
....thus I must inflict it upon yall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP3AZZJmqoI && http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02YtT...eature=related




....pi-ta-go-ra su-i-chi!

[Phone Jockey]

I don't like chatting on the phone w/ ppl, so I wouldn't be inclined to utilize a public phone. The only time I call ppl anyway is to set up plans to hang out.

[depechemodefan]

Hey now, for my current project, watching youtube really WAS part of my research.

I imagine you have pen and paper or a window open to take notes. Unlike the losers ath the library who probably can't spell "youtube".