This is a witnessed suck earlier this afternoon while I was at the library.
I was at the checkout desk, helping one of my students get a library card. A thin, older guy is sitting on the edge of the desk, waiting for his daughter to get her library card from another librarian.
Librarian: (to me) So, we're closed tomorrow for Veteran's Day.
Man: *jumping into our conversation* What?! You're closed?!
Librarian: Yessir. To commemorate our veterans.
Man: You know what it is? Y'all are just LAZY.
Librarian: It's a national holiday.
Man: No, y'all just don't wanna work. Americans are so damn lazy! Taking so many damn holidays! They don't do it anywhere else in the world, especially Europe!
Librarian: *exchanging glances with me* Erm, in France they're entitled to six paid weeks of vacation per year, sir.
Man: ... ... They should do it like in Japan! They have the best work ethic--double shifts, go in early every day, leave work late everyday, they never see their families!
...considering that Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, I don't know if that's a resounding endorsement.
And, considering that I'd seen this man earlier with his daughter (who looked to be about 9), haranguing her for forgetting what her address zip code was, and going on at her about stupid the library was for requiring a parental ID to get a card with unlimited borrowing privileges, I....feel very sorry for the daughter.
(I don't think the librarian was doing a zorro? because she was really very polite throughout the entire thing and was just attempting to get back to our business.)
I was at the checkout desk, helping one of my students get a library card. A thin, older guy is sitting on the edge of the desk, waiting for his daughter to get her library card from another librarian.
Librarian: (to me) So, we're closed tomorrow for Veteran's Day.
Man: *jumping into our conversation* What?! You're closed?!
Librarian: Yessir. To commemorate our veterans.
Man: You know what it is? Y'all are just LAZY.
Librarian: It's a national holiday.
Man: No, y'all just don't wanna work. Americans are so damn lazy! Taking so many damn holidays! They don't do it anywhere else in the world, especially Europe!
Librarian: *exchanging glances with me* Erm, in France they're entitled to six paid weeks of vacation per year, sir.
Man: ... ... They should do it like in Japan! They have the best work ethic--double shifts, go in early every day, leave work late everyday, they never see their families!
...considering that Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, I don't know if that's a resounding endorsement.
And, considering that I'd seen this man earlier with his daughter (who looked to be about 9), haranguing her for forgetting what her address zip code was, and going on at her about stupid the library was for requiring a parental ID to get a card with unlimited borrowing privileges, I....feel very sorry for the daughter.
(I don't think the librarian was doing a zorro? because she was really very polite throughout the entire thing and was just attempting to get back to our business.)
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