So. I work at the library, and part of my job at the library is putting books on the shelves and making sure that the books on the shelves are in the correct order. And so i'm usually the first one to notice when this one guy has come been there. It's obvious, see, because he is rabidly Republican, and when the library owns anything that is opposed to his worldview, he gets extremely upset about it.
The first time i noticed him was when we changed the way we did the shelves. Instead of just having all of the books spine-out, we started taking one book per shelf and facing it outwards so people could see the cover. One day i came in, and a book by Hilary Clinton had been hidden behind the shelved books. Other books that were possibly Democrat-leaning had been covered up or moved. I fixed everything and then mentioned it to the ladies who work behind the desk. One of them was all, "Oh. I know who that probably was. He's ... outspoken."
So every few weeks, i'll come in and find books moved and hidden. We all roll our eyes at him. A couple of days ago, after finding an unusually high number of the books being moved, i was up talking to the ladies at the desk again, and our new girl was all, "OH! I think i know who you mean! Yeah, he was complaining that James Comey's book should be in the fiction section." (He had moved the copies to the fiction section.) Apparently he was also very upset that so many of the picture books facing outward had black children on them. It was explained to him that that's because it's Black History month, and his response was, "Well. There should be an old white guy month!"
This is the guy who apparently had a huge problem with a board book named "A is for Activist." His response for that was to check out the book, bring it to the parking lot, throw it on the ground, and intentionally drive over it. Because he is mature.
This week when he was in our library, complaining about all of the "liberal" books, he mentioned to our (old white) guy working the desk that maybe he would just check some of them out and destroy them. He was all, "Oh, sure. You could do that. Of course, you'd be responsible for any damage, and if it's damaged enough to discard, the library would just buy a new copy, which would be good for the author...."
ANYHOW. The question that all of us keep asking each other is this: How angry and unreasonable do you have to be to continue going to the library just to move books around and complain about the ones you disagree with? I don't even understand.
The first time i noticed him was when we changed the way we did the shelves. Instead of just having all of the books spine-out, we started taking one book per shelf and facing it outwards so people could see the cover. One day i came in, and a book by Hilary Clinton had been hidden behind the shelved books. Other books that were possibly Democrat-leaning had been covered up or moved. I fixed everything and then mentioned it to the ladies who work behind the desk. One of them was all, "Oh. I know who that probably was. He's ... outspoken."
So every few weeks, i'll come in and find books moved and hidden. We all roll our eyes at him. A couple of days ago, after finding an unusually high number of the books being moved, i was up talking to the ladies at the desk again, and our new girl was all, "OH! I think i know who you mean! Yeah, he was complaining that James Comey's book should be in the fiction section." (He had moved the copies to the fiction section.) Apparently he was also very upset that so many of the picture books facing outward had black children on them. It was explained to him that that's because it's Black History month, and his response was, "Well. There should be an old white guy month!"
This is the guy who apparently had a huge problem with a board book named "A is for Activist." His response for that was to check out the book, bring it to the parking lot, throw it on the ground, and intentionally drive over it. Because he is mature.
This week when he was in our library, complaining about all of the "liberal" books, he mentioned to our (old white) guy working the desk that maybe he would just check some of them out and destroy them. He was all, "Oh, sure. You could do that. Of course, you'd be responsible for any damage, and if it's damaged enough to discard, the library would just buy a new copy, which would be good for the author...."
ANYHOW. The question that all of us keep asking each other is this: How angry and unreasonable do you have to be to continue going to the library just to move books around and complain about the ones you disagree with? I don't even understand.
That's hilarious!
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