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SethGreene531 · M
@cherokeepatti @AliceinWonderland Always loved going to the library. Browsing, sitting for hours on a rainy day between shelves or in the fireplace room.
A community center as much as any other, it developed a problem with bed bugs in the seating area. Forced to close and fumigate.
Then it closed every Saturday 10 till noon, to spray for bookworms.
Over the years the patrons changed from young students, to the homeless and an increased security presence.
A community center as much as any other, it developed a problem with bed bugs in the seating area. Forced to close and fumigate.
Then it closed every Saturday 10 till noon, to spray for bookworms.
Over the years the patrons changed from young students, to the homeless and an increased security presence.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SethGreene531 they were putting jigsaw puzzles out on large tables for an activity to keep them busy. Some would read or sort through their duffle bags taking everything out and organizing their papers etc, some would go to the magazine reading room. I don’t know if they allow duffle bags to be carried inside the libraries now.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Orca4950 did they think you were going to steal a book or something? Because these days people don’t even want to read them much.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Orca4950 One time when my daughter was a young teen I took her to the university art museum. There weren’t very many people there and it was on a Sunday afternoon right after it opened up. The security guard followed us around like she thought we were going to steal some piece of artwork. I had talked to my daughter about not touching anything and to talk in a low voice and all of those manners you would have in such a place and she was doing very well. She was tiptoeing around trying to be stealth about it too. Like my daughter said we were not the only people in the museum for her to direct her attention to, and we weren’t dressed in raggedy clothes either. I don’t know what her problem was but we never went back. And my daughter was in art classes at school and did very well in them so it was like a slap in the face to be treated that way.
SethGreene531 · M