An Open Letter to Annoying People in the Library

April 6, 2009     Posted in Reality


By Carly

Dear Library People,

SHUT UP. Holy crap. If you are talking on your cell phone, talking really loudly to your best friend, or just talking because you adore the sound of your own voice so much that you can’t seem to close your mouth, for the love of God, just stop.

I don’t care if you’re doing continual stage whispers. I don’t care if you’re on the first floor, where nobody does real studying. I don’t care if the library is the only place you ever run into your old roommate, so it’s the only possible place you can catch her up on all the gossip from last weekend. I’m sorry; you are out of luck. The library is not your social scene, and I will personally come and extract you from the building if you continue to obnoxiously make noise.

Yes, I get that you need a break from your studying. I understand that you have had a stressful week. I even grasp that maybe I should just chill out and stop taking my own work so seriously. But that’s just too bad. The library is my sanctuary, and until you opened your big mouth, I could count on being there in peace and quiet. So unless you want me to run at you with a huge needle and some surgical thread, take your conversations elsewhere! The weather is getting warm again, and it’s at most a 50-pace distance to the glorious outdoors, where you can talk to your heart’s content.

Thank you for understanding my frustration at your blatant disregard for anyone except yourself.

Sincerely,
Me

15 Comments on "An Open Letter to Annoying People in the Library"

  1. sarah says:
    Mon, 6th Apr 200911:10 am 

    Yes! The library is the only place i can go to study and stay focused for hours… When there are designated quiet floors… damit be quiet!

  2. snarktastic says:
    Mon, 6th Apr 200911:11 am 

    anything more than 2-sentences at a quiet whisper is completely inappropriate for the library. fastest way to make enemies = making exorbitant, protracted noise in the library.

  3. tasha says:
    Mon, 6th Apr 200911:26 am 

    I love to study in the library but my school has group work rooms on each floor and the people in there seem to think to think that everyone is deaf because of how loud they are. I also hate the people that like to share their music with the rest of the 5th floor quiet area.

  4. Sarah says:
    Mon, 6th Apr 200911:37 am 

    Amen to that. A few weeks ago, my friend and I were on the main floor and there was a conference room nearby. A group of guys went in there and I think they were watching an action movie on the projector, and they were screaming. The door was shut but we could still hear them. The library is NOT for movies!

  5. Mary says:
    Mon, 6th Apr 200912:02 pm 

    Omg I could have written this lol. My favorite is when people are on their stupid fucking phones directly underneath the "No talking or cell phones, thank you" signs.

  6. Christina says:
    Mon, 6th Apr 200912:20 pm 

    At my school, everyone's in the library…

    so everyone talks but only on floors that everyone knows about.

    But everyone's in the library. Literally, everyone. Not just for a silent place to study but also just to see people.

  7. Emily says:
    Mon, 6th Apr 20091:27 pm 

    We have study rooms on the third floor of our library, and EVERYONE seems to think that they are sound proof. THEY AREN'T! The reading room isn't either. Take your lazy butt down to the second floor where there are restrooms and hallways AWAY from studying areas.

  8. gloria says:
    Mon, 6th Apr 20092:50 pm 

    omg

    what I hate even more are people who are texting and set their phones to vibrate.

    Every 2 seconds the Bzz Bzzz noise goes off and its rather distracting!

  9. Q says:
    Mon, 6th Apr 20097:46 pm 

    There was this girl who had on headphones and didn't realize that every time she received a text an extremely loud gong noise came up.

  10. M says:
    Mon, 6th Apr 20098:47 pm 

    Thank you! I was just bitching about this my roommate! I was trying to finish a paper the other day and there were three girls in there who were not only talking, but laughing (squealing), and clapping! CLAPPING! STFU or leave!argh!!!

  11. Brithny - Duke Unive says:
    Tue, 7th Apr 20098:10 am 

    Emily, do you go to my school? We have the same problem haha.

    Reading rooms are for reading silently, not aloud :D

  12. C says:
    Tue, 7th Apr 20095:58 pm 

    I was in the library Sunday, so it was crowded, I was on the quiet floor. Chatter everywhere. Plus there was some guy that fell asleep, snoring LOUDLY.

  13. Brooke says:
    Tue, 7th Apr 20096:37 pm 

    I hate when people wear their headphones but have the music turned all the way up so I can hear every word of every song. Drives me crazy!

  14. Rosana says:
    Thu, 1st Jul 20104:47 pm 

    I HATE when people are on computers and blast the volume to high hell! Or cellphones! BZZZ, BZZZ STFU!

  15. bri says:
    Mon, 14th Mar 201111:31 am 

    the eaters
    i hate them. i F*N hate them! when has it ever been acceptable to eat in the library especially on the computers?? NEVER you ditz, take your ranch dressing soup elsewhere!

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