Silly Question...teens don't stay quiet in library

Ralphy1 said:
Hmm, what other antics was you mother up to before she had you?
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Her high school had a front lawn that was always in good condition because after school detention meant pulling up a bucket of weeds from the lawn.
On detention one afternoon she decided to cheat a little by half filling the bucket with water then filling the rest with weeds.
It worked very well until the duty teacher decided to tramp down the weeds to make sure they had pulled out enough plants.
He did not expect to get a wet shoe for his trouble.

Another trick her class had was to fill the teachers cupboard up with snow on the rare occasions that it was available.

My mum really enjoyed school but didn't actually learn very much.
 

She would have been my kind of girl and we would have spent hours of detention together...:love_heart:
 
chic said:
I was well brought up as were my friends, but when we were 13 yrs old we hung out at the library to meet boys. We were loud and raucous and disturbed everyone so the librarian kicked us out on a regular basis. I have no excuse for my misbehavior except, "hey, I was a 13 yr old girl" which equals brain dead in my opinion. But even brain dead teenage girls grow up and change.;)
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I have to agree with everything you said chic. I might not have been the loud mouth in the group but I was there as moral support for them and the comment about being brain dead, yep, agree with that too. Well, maybe we weren't brain dead (because we could still feed ourselves :p) but our focus and our worlds only contained us and our friends. I look back on all that and I'm embarrassed but like you said, we all did grow up, mostly.
 

Mmm. I am an adult, responsible and no longer sporting an adolescent's self absorption, but grown up, never! I still stick out my tongue on occasion at anally retentive colleagues. Twenty years ago, when I was less tactful, I would have openly laughed

at them. To me, control issues do not equal maturity. Also, in my experience many people never outgrow being almost entirely self referential, intolerant of any behaviour or ideology that does not mirror their own. Perhaps this paint by number approach

to life works for them, but for others it allows no room for individuality or imagination. A sort of OCD straitjacket. Eek, hell on earth for a creative. It is possible to embrace discipline and organisation while disavowing perfectionism. Just sayin...
 
I remember the construction site all the neighborhood kids played at. There was a trailer for the security guard. Little monsters that we were we'd toss rocks at the roof and when he came out we'd run for the hills. But as far as confrontations, you did not talk sassy to people in authority. Remember getting sent to the principal? It was like walking to the electric chair. Nowadays kids probably argue with them too.
 
I've been in a library and when other patrons were talking loudly and I asked them to keep it down they got quite belligerent. Its up to the staff and security guard to make sure that people don't get too loud/rowdy, and there should also be some signs to that effect. Also if patrons are being disturbed and upset they should not hesitate to complain to the staff.
 
The library in my home town was quiet. People whispered only.

That seems to be gone. Those kids should have been given one warning. No comply and it's out the door.

Too bad they now have to have a security guard at the library.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Yes Fur, I was raised to be quiet in the library and obey any instruction from librarians. I still whisper in the library and make sure my cell phone is off so it doesn't start ringing there. I agree with Sifu, if they were raise to be polite and mannerly, they would not act so poorly in public whether they were with their rowdy friends or not.
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Many people who are raised properly still turn out to be abusive, sociopaths, criminals, etc. - and many who were abused and neglected turn out to lead exemplary lives.

As far as the OP's library situation we don’t know the boys, we don’t know their parents, and we don’t know how the boys were raised. I don’t see it as a parenting issue, and (unlike fur) I don’t see race as a factor.

They were disturbing others. The security guard’s responsibility was to diffuse and handle the situation, not to argue for 30 minutes and continue to disrupt. Security guard did not do her job.
 
It isn't only the young who are inappropriately noisy.

I remember being in Notre Dame cathedral in Paris and being appalled at the loud voices of a group of middle aged American women. There were services being conducted in the smaller alcoves but these women were oblivious to anyone but themselves. Even when hushed by the guide they didn't lower their voices.
 
Sometimes without knowing it, older people who are hearing impaired are noisy also. Here in the Tombs, there is a man, only a few years older than I who talks loudly in the hall--he lives on my floor. I can hear him anywhere in my house unless I am

outside on the balcony. It really would not be an issue, except he is a very early riser, and I am a light sleeper. Many times I have plotted his untimely demise at six am. This is the man whom along with his wife, I snarkily referred to in past posts as

"the come to Jesus" people, due to their propensity for leaving me religious tracts outside my door for years.
 
Shalimar said:
Many times I have plotted his untimely demise at six am. This is the man whom along with his wife, I snarkily referred to in past posts as

"the come to Jesus" people, due to their propensity for leaving me religious tracts outside my door for years.
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Now be open minded Shali and hear me out.......after all we're buds and you know I'd never steer you wrong.

Okay, save up the "hallelujah pamphlets" till you have enough to make little voodoo dolls in their likeness then go out on the balcony with a live chicken, some incense, the dolls, and a half dozen or so shish kabob skewers........light the incense, kill the chicken and start sticking the skewers in the dolls while prancing around and chanting naked.

I'm pretty sure that will get rid of them, try it and get back to us......oh, we'll expect lots of pictures.
 
I guess thing just keep getting worse, I don't know of situations that happened where the kids were so disrespectful on library grounds to the point that security had to remove them. When they caused a problem at the facilities I worked at, we asked them to quiet down once and showed them the door if they couldn't keep it down, that went for adults as well. I especially loved the adults who thought the facility was for free baby sitting. Now that's when real issues came about.
 
chic said:
I was well brought up as were my friends, but when we were 13 yrs old we hung out at the library to meet boys. We were loud and raucous and disturbed everyone so the librarian kicked us out on a regular basis. I have no excuse for my misbehavior except, "hey, I was a 13 yr old girl" which equals brain dead in my opinion. But even brain dead teenage girls grow up and change.;)
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Not always -- look at the Kardashians . . . .
 
SifuPhil said:
Yeah, see, I got the same stories back when I used to teach kids. I wasn't a martial arts teacher - I was a drop-off kiddie camp. The parents expected me to instill in one hour what they had failed to teach in 120 hours.

No, uhn-uhn.

I hung out with my peers as well when I was a teen and didn't need to be taught lessons by any rent-a-cop. My parents had already taught me about courtesy and respect.
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My point exactly.
 
IKE said:
1. we'll take up a collection for your bail if needed.

2. I suppose you could substitute a bucket of KFC but I don't promise the same results.
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Or use a rubber chicken -- we used to keep one in a file drawer and it would turn up in fun places once in a while. HAHAHA

BUT, we were quiet about it. What rubber chicken???
 
Shalimar said:
So funny Butterfly! Thanks! HaHaHaHa. The things I learn on this forum...
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Not sure about a rubber chicken girl but hey it might be worth a try.....I'd still go ahead and get the bucket of KFC tho just in case your belly started growling from all that prancing around.....we're all pulling for ya, keep us posted.
 
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