Hide Your Coffee, Hide Your Tea, Cause' They Are Taking All The Beverages Out Here

My days have had a slight change with an addition of a new serving job, so the people watching continues, just in a different setting. Before my 9-5pm hours at the library ceased, a disturbing thing happened. Someone touched my tea.

Deep in concentration over my cover letter, resume, and applications, I barely noticed a hand grabbing for my perfectly blended ice tea. I did, however, notice when it was lifted from the table. A librarian took my tea. Right off the table. She took it!

Horrified, I looked up at her. I was a mix of angry, hurt, and above all- shocked. "You can't have this." She whispered, although I'm sure I was making a scene with my angry looks. I then tried to persuade her to give it back to me, which as you probably guessed, failed.

My head was spinning at the prospects of loosing my tea, so I mentioned the lack of signage about drinks, questioned if I could even have water (it was clearly tea...), and then finally succumbed to the removal of my tea, but then asked if it could be placed at the front desk of the computer lab. Luckily the librarian agreed, but I have to admit that I've become quite a professional water smuggler since that fateful day. New skills like these often come in handy much much later in life.

So another lesson learned. You can't persuade a librarian to let you have beverages in the computer lab, but you can hide them at the front desk. Another wonderful reason why I love my local library!