Things That Irritate Me No. 26 Out of a Zillion

[blahflowers]

People that carry stuff back to the library in their hands, when it's raining.

If they were caught in a freak shower, fair enough, but who, other than the biggest clot in clot town, looks at it pissing down outside and thinks "I need to take this stuff back to the library, I won't bother putting it in a bag or trying in any way to keep it from getting rained on because I'm sure the library service have strange, magical devices that defy the laws of physics to remove the water from books and return them to the pristine state they were in when I borrowed them."

Clots.

Comments

[gane5h.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's more that they don't consider the books their responsibility in any way, especially once read, so don't expend thought on the consequences of getting them wet.

[cherielabombe.livejournal.com]

I've done this, and it has always been because I got caught in a rainstorm on my way out and it would only be worse to turn back around. It does happen!

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

I'm talking more of people who, on a day where it rains almost continually, don't thing to chuck their books in a bag or something and at least try not to get them soaked through.

Caught in the one brief five minutes shower of the day I could understand...

[sootysmudge.livejournal.com]

Yep, just like the people who return a library book to ANY library, not the library they borrowed it from. We've even had that happen here.

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

Yep, I had someone who returned some graphic novels to us that belong to a neighbouring authority. I phoned and left a message on his answerphone, he didn't come in to pick them up, so I waited a few months to build up a nice big fine, then dropped them into the right library on my way home one day. It's hardly up there with the Inquisition I know, but until the bosses allow my plan to install crocodile pits in libraries I'm limited in what entertainment I can get from my job.